Clo

given name · French · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Clo is a given name, most frequently recorded in France. It appears chiefly in French and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Initialism of chief legal officer.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 196K◐
  • PTPortugal1 in 365K
  • BEBelgium1 in 816K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈111 ●

across 2 countries

Sources
92 ●

4.2K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.7M ◐

United States

Meaning & origin●

Initialism of chief legal officer.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Clo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France2,6923.4K rec.—16Clo92
US United States91195 rec.1 in 3.7M91Clo20
AR Argentina8849 rec.——Clo12
MX Mexico5878 rec.——Clo12
CL Chile3036 rec.——Clo8
IT Italy2961 rec.—listedClo10
PT Portugal2324 rec.——Clo5
BR Brazil20111 rec.1 in 11M58Clo26
CA Canada1921 rec.——Clo6
BE Belgium1945 rec.——Clo5
ES Spain1717 rec.——Clo12
CO Colombia1425 rec.——Clo7

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • French2.7K50%
  • English1.7K30%
  • Spanish3306%
  • Portuguese1853%
  • German471%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
French2,73350%
English1,66430%
Spanish3306%
Portuguese1853%
German471%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Clo is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3.7K records spelled Clo58 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Brazil, Spain, Argentina

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Cloe, Cloé, Cloë, Cloee, C-Lo

  • Italian surname152 records spelled Clo3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written Clò, Clo'

  • a separate given name145 records spelled Clo4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Clò, Cló, Clô

  • Thai given name66 records spelled Clo3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Thailand

    Also written Clò

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Clo is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In zlw-ocs, customs, toll (fee for passing through the border of a certain territory)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Czech, duty, tariff, customs duty (on export and import)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Welsh, lock, bolt

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Vietnamese, chlorine

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0102030401900192019401960198039 · 1951

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Clo in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
189110
190113
191121
192123
193120
194121
195139
196126
197117
198120
199116

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

193019401950Clo Baril, b. 1931Clo Duri Bezzola, b. 1934Clo Duri Bezzola, b. 1945

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 13 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Clo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—550#916
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202091#52,133
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—58#94,441
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195139—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196126—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192123—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194121—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191121—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202220—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198120—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193120—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202018#52,133

Reference works 4

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 28 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Clo?
We estimate roughly 111 people bear Clo (counting its spellings and scripts) across 2 countries in our records.
In which country does Clo have the most bearers?
Clo is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled clo.
Is Clo a male or female name?
Clo is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Clo mean?
Recorded meaning: Initialism of chief legal officer.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Clo”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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