Cleo
Greek at root, carrying the sense of "glory, fame". In Poland it stays genuinely rare: only about thirty people wear it, so most Poles have never met a Cleo and it fades further each year.
Cleo Pronunciation
Cleo is pronounced TSLE-o (/ˈt͡slɛɔ/).
What Cleo means
Where Cleo comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Cleo comes from Greek, from kleos, meaning glory and fame. It sits inside longer Greek names like Cleopatra, where the same root joins with "father" to give glory of the father. English speakers took the short form and let it stand alone. Cleo is brief and clear.
The best known bearer is Cleopatra VII of Egypt, who ruled in the first century BC and wrote her own name into every Roman account of her reign. The short form Cleo keeps that Greek root without the royal length. The meaning stays near the surface: glory, fame.
On a Polish class register, Cleo reads as compact and foreign, four letters that ask for no diminutive. There is no standard Polish variant, no softened nickname to reach for. The name arrives already short. What it hands a child is the old Greek word for fame, kleos.
How many people are named Cleo
1 in 777374 women in Poland is named Cleo. 31 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7259 among female names.
Cleo's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Cleo as a middle name
Cleo is a first name for 31 women in Poland and a middle name for another 15, a 67/33 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1901st, between Chiedza (15) and Consuelo (15).
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#1899 Chaja15
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#1900 Chiedza15
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#1901 Cleo15
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#1902 Consuelo15
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#1903 Courtney15