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Clover

feminine

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Evidence coverageHigh

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English, directly from the word for the clover plant (genus Trifolium), ultimately from Old English clafre/claefre.

Why it works

  • English speakers will almost certainly pronounce it correctly on the first try
  • spelling is short and predictable — rarely needs repeating

Popularity

Uncommon — #517 in the latest U.S. ranking.

Meaning and origin

Clover means 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.

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.

Documented origin: English, directly from the word for the clover plant (genus Trifolium), ultimately from Old English clafre/claefre.

VerifiedDirectly documented by an independent source, with no competing account on file.

How it travels

English and Turkish are shown by default; German is included when it adds a meaningfully different reading.

EnglishKLOH-ver — US Englishresearched pronunciation
TurkishNo strong structural signal of Turkish/English divergence for this spelling.deterministic phonetic analysis
GermanNo strong structural signal of German/English divergence for this spelling.deterministic phonetic analysis

Spelling stability: highbased on letter-pattern analysis, not a documented linguistic fact.

Popularity without panic

Uncommon#517 in the latest U.S. ranking.

Still uncommon, but no longer unfamiliar.

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Real-world considerations

  • Spelling note: Klover.
  • 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.
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