BabyNameScore

Clover

KLOH·ver · 2 syllables

Clover feels distinctive without creating everyday friction in daily use.

91/100

Strong Practical Fit

Balanced across pronunciation, everyday use, lifetime fit and international use.

Name Profile

  1. Pronunciation & Spelling

    Effortless

    A documented English pronunciation is on file: KLOH-ver.

    91/100

  2. Everyday Use

    Low risk

    95/100

  3. Growing Up

    Strong lifetime fit

    Works comfortably across child and adult settings.

    82/100

  4. International Use

    Broad international fit

    Works cleanly across the assessed languages and writing systems.

    85/100

NAME DETAILS

CLOSE SPELLINGS
Klover
ORIGIN & HISTORY

About the name

The common flowering plant clover (genus Trifolium, from Latin tres 'three' + folium 'leaf'), used directly as a given name rather than through any figurative or indirect meaning. Although current mainstream usage and available ranking data skew clearly female, English word-names like Clover carry no inherent grammatical gender, and some naming-community discussion treats it as a genuinely unisex option; this profile reflects the female-skewing usage pattern actually observed while noting that framing is debated.

  1. clafre / claefre (Old English). Emerged as a personal name only relatively recently in English-speaking countries, part of a broader late-20th and 21st-century trend of using nature/plant vocabulary as first names.
POPULARITY

Clover over time

United States
#517RANK

Rank #517 gives national context, not a classroom forecast.

Uncommon in current U.S. usage. Ranked #517 in the U.S., 2025.

SourceU.S. Social Security Administration · 2025 release

Pronunciation & Forms

SAY IT

KLOH·ver

STRESS ON THE FIRST SYLLABLE

CLOSE SPELLINGS
  • Klover
PRACTICAL LIFE

How This Name Lives

AT SCHOOL & DAY TO DAY

Bright, whimsical, and easy for a child to say and spell, fitting comfortably within the contemporary 'cottagecore' nature-name aesthetic (alongside names like Ivy, Fern, and Poppy).

INTO ADULTHOOD

Retains a light, nature-inspired charm into adulthood without reading as overtly childish, though as a relatively new personal name it may still occasionally prompt a comment about its plant/word origin in formal settings.

Cultural Footprint

As a plant, clover carries long-standing folk associations with luck, fertility, and (via its three leaflets) the Christian Trinity, with the rare four-leaf form treated as an especially strong luck symbol, often tied to Irish shamrock tradition; as a personal name it is a modern 'word name' / 'cottagecore' choice rather than a name with its own independent long history of use.

TRACEABLE ORIGIN
  1. Clover MooreAustralian politician, Lord Mayor of Sydney
  2. Clover MaitlandAustralian Olympic field hockey player
  3. Clover MurrayBritish cyclist

More about Clover

FORMALITY

Functions the same in formal and informal registers, as is typical of English word-names; no separate formal/informal variant form is documented.

Names around it

IvyPoppyBriar
EDITORIAL SYNTHESIS

The Decision

Clover is spelled without unusual letter patterns, and it holds up in everyday use. Surname-dependent compatibility remains unassessed until a surname is added.

STRENGTH

A documented English pronunciation is on file. Uses standard characters that systems widely handle cleanly.

BEST FIT

Everyday Use is the strongest-scoring part of this name — no obvious nickname traps, rhymes, or initial issues detected.

FULL-NAME CHECK

See how it works with a surname.

Clover