Entry № 5540 · Greek origin

Klio Klio — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KLEE-oh /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Greek
Meaning
"To celebrate, the muse of history"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Greek)

A name that means "to celebrate, the muse of history".

Klio (Κλειώ) — usually anglicized as Clio — is the Greek muse of history. The name comes from kleō, meaning "to celebrate" or "to make famous."

Klio is rare but distinctive — chosen by literary and historical families.

The muse of history.

The name in its native script.

Κλειώ
Transliteration
Kleiṓ
Pronunciation
/ ˈkliː.oʊ /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Klio stands.

Klio does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Klios before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Klio
Greek muse of history.
Greek mythology

Names connected to Klio.

The number behind Klio.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Klio reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.