Clio Barnard is a British director of documentary and feature films. She won widespread critical acclaim and multiple awards for her debut, The Arbor, an experimental documentary about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. In 2013 she was hailed as a significant new voice in British cinema for her film The Selfish Giant, which premiered in the Director's Fortnight section of the Cannes film festival.
I named my cat Clio. I'd looked up Greek mythology names on this website previously and then I saw her and the name just felt right. Also, quite unique where we live, even for a pet.
Clio Goldsmith (born 16 June 1957) is a French former actress, appearing mostly as a femme fatale in some films of the early 1980s. She is a member of the prominent Goldsmith family through her father ecologist Edward Goldsmith. Goldsmith was married to British travel writer Mark Shand, the brother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, second wife of Charles, Prince of Wales.
Clio was one of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus and Titaness Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory. Clio is the Muse of History, and is usually depicted with an open scroll or seated by a set of books. Also known as the "proclaimer, glorifier, and celebrator of history, great deeds, and accomplishments".
A character from "Sofia the First" bears this name.
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Clio was the name of Twister's cousin on the Nickelodeon cartoon Rocket Power. She is friends with Otto's sister Reggie. (They were enemies at first, but later became friends.)
There aren't to many feminine names ending in O that 'work' in English. And this is in my opinion is the most feminine sounding one of them. I prefer this spelling because I love the mythology connection to it, and it seems more of a stand alone name while Cleo always look more like a nickname for Cleopatra.
I really like this name. It’s original, pretty and unique, but no too out-there. Clio is great alternative to the overused Chloe. The only reason I wouldn’t use it as a legit name is because of the Renault Clio. Not that it’s a bad car, but I wouldn’t want people to think that I’d named my child after it. So, I would use Clio as a nickname for the gorgeous name Clíona.
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I absolutely love Clio. I much prefer Clio to Cleo, it looks slimmer and more direct.
Clio was a muse. Her name means 'to celebrate', 'to praise', 'to acclaim'. She was the goddess of the arts. As a muse, she was known for heroism, poetry, and history. She has the title of 'The Proclaimer'. She is credited for introducing the Phoenician alphabet into Greece. An asteroid was named after her, discovered on August 25, 1865. Her mother was Hyacinth and fathered by Zeus. She married Perus, the king of Macedonia, part of modern Greece, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia. Worshipped in Greece and Macedoina.