Khloey is a variant of Chloe, from Greek, meaning green shoot or blooming, associated with spring growth.
Khloey is a variant spelling of Chloe, one of the most venerable names in the Greek tradition. The original Khloe is derived directly from the ancient Greek word for the first tender green shoots of new growth — the color and vitality of a plant just breaking through the soil in spring. In classical Greece, Khloe was one of the epithet-names of Demeter, the goddess of grain and fertility, invoked specifically in her aspect as the bringer of green life and agricultural renewal.
It was a name for beginnings. In the New Testament, a woman named Chloe appears in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, identified as a member of the early Christian community whose "household" brought Paul news of divisions in the Corinthian church — making her one of the few named women in the Pauline letters, and a figure of evident social standing and respect. The name traveled through Latin Christendom into English, where it enjoyed moderate use.
Its literary profile was deepened in the pastoral romance tradition: in Longus's ancient Greek novel Daphnis and Chloe, the shepherdess Chloe became the archetype of innocent, rustic femininity. The Khloe spelling, popularized in part by Khloé Kardashian, introduced a Greek-flavored orthography that signals both authenticity to the name's ancient roots (the original Greek spelling uses the kh- construction) and a contemporary American flair. Khloey adds a further personalization through the -ey ending, placing it alongside Zoey, Zoie, and Kloey as part of a family of names that share a sound, a season, and a brightness.