Given name
Cléo
“glory, fame”
Cléo is a unisex given name from Greek. It is used in French.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Cléo goes back to Greek κλέος, meaning “glory, fame.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Cléo’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Cléo
- Cléo de MérodeFrench dancer (1875-1966)
- Cléo de VerberenaBrazilian actress1909–1972
- Cléo HickmannBrazilian association football playerborn 1959
- Cléo HamonFrench figure skaterborn 2001
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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