"Variant of Cleopas"
The name Cleophus is commonly a male name from the "Biblical" origin.
Cleophus is an English spelling of Cleopas, the Greek form of the name carried by one of the two disciples who meet the risen Jesus on the road to Emmaus in the Gospel of Luke (24:18). The Latin Vulgate and older English bibles use the spelling Cleophas, as in John 19:25, and Cleophus is a later English rendering of that Latin form. The name is therefore an inherited biblical name rather than a modern coinage, which fits its appearance in United States birth records from 1904 onward.
Cleopas means "Distinguished, renowned father. ".
The pronunciation of Cleophus is KLEE-uh-fus.
