Chloe

Chloe was a Greek epithet for Demeter, the goddess of the harvest — specifically the name she wore in spring, when the first green shoots came up through the fields. The word itself means "young green shoot." Longus gave it to the shepherdess in Daphnis and Chloe, one of the earliest novels, and the name has carried a pastoral freshness ever since. It climbed into the American top ten in the 2000s and remains a top-twenty staple. One punchy syllable that opens into a soft e, a name that feels French and Greek at once. Clean, literary, and a little bit pagan. New-grass energy in name form.