Kloe is a variant of Chloe, from Greek khloe meaning 'young green shoot' or 'blooming.'
Kloe is a freshly respelled form of Chloe, one of the most ancient and enduring names in the Western tradition. The original Greek Χλόη (Khloē) means "blooming" or "young green shoot" — specifically the first pale-green growth of grain in spring, tender and new.
Chloe was an epithet of Demeter, the Greek goddess of the harvest, honored in her spring aspect as the earth came back to life after winter. The name appears in the New Testament (1 Corinthians 1:11), where members of Chloe's household report divisions in the Corinthian church — a brief mention that carried the name into Christian Europe's naming lexicon. In literature, Chloe gained further immortality as the young shepherdess of Longus's ancient Greek pastoral novel Daphnis and Chloe (2nd or 3rd century AD), a work that shaped the entire pastoral romance genre and was retold, reimagined, and adored through the Renaissance and into the Romantic era — Ravel's ballet Daphnis et Chloé (1912) being among its most celebrated descendants.
By the late 20th century, Chloe surged to the top of baby name charts across the English-speaking world, driven in part by the novelist Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford) and the fashion house Chloé. The Kloe variant, popularized by cultural celebrity Khloé Kardashian, trades the classical 'Ch-' digraph for a clean, bold 'K,' modernizing a 2,500-year-old name without disturbing its essential brightness.