Chloe in Korean — 클로이 | Hangul Spelling & Korean Names

Where the spelling 클로이 comes from

The NIKL list spells Chloe differently for different people — 클로이 (2) — so this page follows the Loanword Orthography: Table 1 and Chapter 3, Section 1 (English). Read the rules (Korean)

Look up 클로이 in the NIKL list (Korean)

Sound by sound

Ch클lo로e이

Why it is spelled this way

[l] between vowels is written ㄹㄹ (Loanword Orthography, English art.6-2).
Diphthongs keep each vowel ([ai] 아이, [ei] 에이), but [ou] is 오 and [auə] is 아워 (Loanword Orthography, English art.8).
Other [p], [t], [k] at the end or before a consonant take 으: 프, 트, 크 (Loanword Orthography, English art.1-3).

What Chloe means

“young green shoot”

From Ancient Greek χλόη

Source: Wiktionary — Chloe · CC BY-SA 4.0

Chloe by the numbers

US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 52, 219,728 babies (99.9% girls, 0.1% boys).
NIKL usage list — people with the given name 클로이: 2.

Korean names for Chloe

These are the converter’s results for Chloe as a girl’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).

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Closest in sound among real Korean names.

이로아Lee RoaGirl’s name · 53% sound match

이로희Lee RohuiGirl’s name · 53% sound match

이가은Lee GaeunGirl’s name · 46% sound match가 佳 beautiful은 恩 kindness, mercy, charity

No surname given, so we picked 이, one of the three most common Korean surnames.

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Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics

Chloe in Korean: 클로이