Marie-Claire
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maʁiklɛʀ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marie-Claire is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 6K
- CACanada≈1 in 55K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marie-Claire 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #674 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | 36K | Marie-Claire | 250 |
| BE Belgium | #558 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 5 | Marie-Claire | 61 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 59K | 3 | Marie-Claire | 13 |
| CM Cameroon | #903 | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Marie-Claire | 10 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 8 | Marie-Claire | 96 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 445 | 1 in 39K | 445 | Marie-Claire | 32 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Marie-Claire | 33 |
| GP Guadeloupe | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | 5 | — | 3 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); the ca-statcan-baby-names register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 971 (Guadeloupe). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicitéb. 1758HTnot in their usual nameHaitian empress (1758–1858)
- Marie-Claire Alainb. 1926FRnot in their usual nameFrench organist and organ teacher (1926–2013)
- Marie-Claire Bergèreb. 1933FRnot in their usual nameFrench historian and sinologist
- Marie-Claire Blaisb. 1939CAnot in their usual nameplaywright working in Quebec (1939–2021)
- Marie-Claire Chevalierb. 1955FRnot in their usual nameFrench abortion activist (1955-2022)
- Marie-Claire Mézeretteb. 1956MAnot in their usual nameMoroccan director
- Marie-Claire D'Ubaldob. 1961ARnot in their usual nameArgentine singer
- Marie-Claire Carrère-Géeb. 1963FRnot in their usual nameFrench politician
- Marie-Claire Restouxb. 1968FRnot in their usual nameFrench judoka
- Amberb. 1970NLnot in their usual nameDutch born German singer, songwriter, label owner and executive producer
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)
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 36 sources across 27 countries.
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
- How do you pronounce Marie-Claire?
- A machine transcription gives /maʁiklɛʀ/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Marie-Claire a male or female name?
- Marie-Claire 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 are other forms of the name Marie-Claire?
- In the etymology graph, Claire is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Marie-Claire have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Marie-Claire in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marie-claire.
- How common is the name Marie-Claire?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 445 people named Marie-Claire, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
- How common is Marie-Claire compared with other names?
- In France, Marie-Claire is the 674th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Marie-Claire?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marie-claireThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Marie-Claire” — the 674th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.