Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Greek.
The story
In mythological stories, Cloris is associated with the goddess of flowers.
Cloris through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 154
- 0 boys · 154 girls
- Most popular year
- 1975
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 9 in 1975. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 200 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Cloris’s family of names
Cloris has a related form in Clores. Cloris has a related form in Cloriss. Cloris has a related form in Clorisse.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Cloris
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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