Klára

given name · Latin script

Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Clare or Clara

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/klaːra/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Klára is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 135(measured from records)
  • HUHungary1 in 303
  • SISlovenia1 in 482

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

79,200 people

Sources
245 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 135 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Klara in SE Sweden.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a female given name, equivalent to English Clare or Clara

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Klára counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Klára is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#6979,2001 in 13579KKlára77
PL Poland—32,8421 in 1.2K33K—5
HU Hungary#25432,2931 in 30332KKlára64
SE Sweden—16,8041 in 60717KKlara48
HR Croatia—4,7791 in 8856.6K—3
SI Slovenia—4,3611 in 4824.4K—22
IS Iceland—4131 in 849413—2

79,200 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Klára is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Klāra, Klara, Klārā, Klära, Klàra

  • German given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Sweden

    Languages: German, Dutch

    Also written Klara, Kla-Ra

23 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Klára is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Icelandic, to finish

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Faroese, to clear

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019201940196019802000Claire Beck Loos, b. 1904Klara Dan von Neumann, b. 1911Klári Tolnay, b. 1914Klára Melíšková, b. 1971Klára Pollertová, b. 1971Klára Dobrev, b. 1972Klára Apolenářová, b. 1976Klára Kolouchová, b. 1978Klára Issová, b. 1979Klára Koukalová, b. 1982

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalAhoj Klára,Hi Klára, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Klára
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—79K#61
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201143K#30
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201242K#30
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201342K#31
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201540K#31
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201640K#31
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—40K#70
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—40K#70
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201739K#33
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201838K#34
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)201937K#34
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)202334K#34

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Klára a male or female name?
Klára is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Klára mean, and where does it come from?
a female given name, equivalent to English Clare or Clara Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
What are other forms of the name Klára?
In the etymology graph, Clara, Claire and Clare are forms of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Klára?
A machine transcription gives /klaːra/ (IPA) for Czech.
In which country does Klára have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 79 thousand people named Klára, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled klára.
Where is Klára most common?
Klára is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 135 people carrying it.
How common is the name Klára?
In Czechia, the national register counted 79,200 people named Klára, about 1 in 135 residents.
How common is Klára compared with other names?
In Czechia, Klára is the 69th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Klára” — the 69th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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