Cletus

Meaning of Cletus

Cletus unfolds like a golden scroll across a Tuscan sunset, its warm syllables—KLEE-tuhs—dancing on the tongue with the ease of a mandolin’s tremolo. Born of the ancient Greek Kleitos, meaning “renowned” or “illustrious,” the name carries a quiet gravitas, recalling the early church’s Saint Cletus whose gentle leadership rippled through Rome’s marble halls. Yet it remains delightfully unisex, a name as fitting for a spirited daughter chasing fireflies in a sunlit piazza as for a son whose laughter echoes through vineyard lanes. There is a playful seriousness to Cletus: it hums with the weight of history while smiling at modern horizons, like a broad-shouldered gondolier crooning arias beneath star-scattered skies. In each curve of its letters, one senses both the flame of heritage and the soft promise of tomorrow—an embrace of tradition that flutters free, whispering of families gathered around long tables, of stories spun under olive boughs, and of a name that, like a cherished melody, endures across seasons and seas.

Pronunciation

American English

• Pronunced as KLEE-tuhs (/ˈklitəs/)

• Clayton
• Cleo
• Clifton
• Clyde
• Clement
• Cullen
• Clive