Clover
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About Clover
Clover is a charming, perky choice if you want to move beyond hothouse blooms like Rose and Lily, and it's recently become a new celeb favorite, chosen by both Neal McDonough and Natasha Gregson Wagner, who used it to honor her mother, Natalie Wood, one of whose most iconic films was Inside Daisy Clover.
Clover also has a long association with good luck, via the four-leaf clover, and through the shamrock symbol of Ireland. It first came to wide notice via a couple of soap opera characters.
In the movie The Good Shepherd , Angelina Jolie's character is called Clover--but her birth name was actually Margaret.
Pronounced KLO-vur.
As of October 2026, Clover ranked #517 in US births in 2025 SSA, Nameberry popularity #213.
Editor's take: The name Clover is a girl's name of English origin meaning "key".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,459 | 154 | 86.2 |
| 2015 | #1,317 | 180 | 100.8 |
| 2016 | #1,344 | 176 | 99.3 |
| 2017 | #1,292 | 182 | 105.4 |
| 2018 | #1,243 | 187 | 109.9 |
| 2019 | #1,136 | 213 | 126.9 |
| 2020 | #1,066 | 232 | 143.5 |
| 2021 | #860 | 319 | 194.4 |
| 2022 | #758 | 380 | 231.7 |
| 2023 | #672 | 436 | 271.7 |
| 2024 | #618 | 482 | 297.5 |
| 2025 | #517 | 578 | 359.6 |
World rankings
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Clover on lists
Famous Clovers
- Marian "Clover" Hooper Adams
American socialite
- Clover Margaret Moore
Lord Mayor of Sydney, Australia
- Clover Kelly (b. 1985)
daughter of actress/novelist Tessa Dahl and James Kelly; granddaughter of novelist Roald Dahl
- Clover Meyer (b. 2005)
daughter of actor Breckin Meyer
- Clover Lavie Caballero
daughter of skateboarder Steve Caballero
- Clover Blue Fortus (b. 2008)
daughter of musician Richard Fortus of Guns 'n' Roses
- Clover Elizabeth McDonough (b. 2011)
daughter of actor Neal McDonough
- Clover Clementyne Watson (b. 2012)
daughter of actors Barry Watson and Natasha Gregson Wagner
- Clover Ash Porter (b. 2017)
daughter of actor Scott Porter
- Clover
one of the main characters in Totally Spies
Clover in pop culture
- Clover
horse in George Orwell's "Animal Farm"
- Margaret "Clover" Russell
character in "The Good Shepherd"
- Clover
character in animated series "Totally Spies"
- Clover
rabbit in "Watership Down"
- Clover
male rabbit character in animated series "Sofia the First"
- Clover
princess in Heather Dixon's "Entwined"
- Clover
British brand of margarine
- "Clover Twig and the Magical Cottage
" children's book by Kaye Umansky
- Clover Carr
character in 'What Katy Did' series
- Clover aka Colin Brown
male character in "The Cellar" by Natasha Preston
- Clover
plant sacred to the Irish druids
- Clover Field
character in 'Zero Escape' game series
- Clover the Clever
character in "My Little Pony" series
- "Cloverfield
" 2008 horror film