Chiara

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Italian: egg white

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

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

Chiara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 379(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 3.5K
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 2.4Kas Kiara

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Chiara itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈160,000 people, est.

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
286 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 379 (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KiaraLatin(measured from records)
КьяраCyrillic(measured from records)
ΚιάραGreek(measured from records)
კიარაGeorgian(measured from records)

Locally spelled Kiara in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, EC Ecuador and 1 more.

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)

Italian form of Clara, from Latin clarus 'clear, bright, famous'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

How Chiara is read(measured from records)

Chiara is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Italian47%

    egg white

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

    dal latino clarus, «chiara, luminosa»; nome della sorella spirituale di S. Francesco d'Assisi

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

    La sorella spirituale d i S. Francesco d3Assisi. 12 agosto. Xome usato in Toscana anche al maschile. Cogn. Chiarella, -rini, -rotti. I n Piemonte Clara, -rotti ; in Friuli Claricini, d a Clarice o Clarissa, nome che si trova in varie Chansons dc geste.

    as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

  • Spanish13%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Chiara in Spanish.

  • English12%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Chiara in English.

  • French11%

    Italian form of Clara, from Latin clarus 'clear, bright, famous'.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    Italian form of Latin clarus « clear, bright ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • German7.1%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Chiara in German.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chiara 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 Chiara is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#439≈160,000 est.≈1 in 3791.6KChiara137
US United States—43,748as Kiara1 in 7.6K44KChiara286
BR Brazil—17,971as Kiara1 in 12K18KKiara83
AR Argentina#468≈17,000 est.≈1 in 2.6K757Kiara60
EC Ecuador—13,208as Kiara1 in 1.3K13KKiara24
PY Paraguay#385≈3,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K—Kiara18
CH Switzerland#669≈2,400 est.≈1 in 3.5K179Chiara68
ES Spain—2,3691 in 21K2.4KChiara74

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); FSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung. 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)

Chiara is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, France, United States, Spain

    Languages: Italian, French, Romanian

    Also written Chiarà, Chïara, Čhïãrã, Ćhïãrå

  • Spanish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Italy, Peru, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Chïãrã, Çhïärä, Çhïąrã, Ćhįarã, Chìara

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Chiára

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Chìarà

  • Czech given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Italy, Czechia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Chiarã

  • Lao given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Italy

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Kiara, เคียร่า, เคียรา, Kîârâ, เคยรา

47 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)

Chiara is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Italian form of Clara, pronounced ‘keeah-ra’: now also occasionally used in the English-speaking world. The name has always been particularly popular in Italy and has been borne by several Italian saints, notably Clare of Assisi (c.1193- 1253), an associate of Francis of Assisi and founder of the order of nuns known as the Poor Clares. See also Ciara.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

1000120014001600180020002200Clare of Assisi, b. 1194Chiara Caselli, b. 1967Chiara Mastroianni, b. 1972Chiara Conti, b. 1973Chiara Zanni, b. 1978Chiara Cainero, b. 1978Chiara Appendino, b. 1984Chiara Ferragni, b. 1987Aviva Mongillo, b. 1998Princess Vittoria of Savoy, b. 2003

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)

InformalCiao Chiara,Hi Chiara, (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 94 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Chiara
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.5K#3,666
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.4K#1,545
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.2K#4,842
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2K#884
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)20241.6K#18
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.3K#7,746
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020363—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025228—
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)2024212#491
CH SwitzerlandFSO — Vornamen der Neugeborenen und Wohnbevölkerung2024179#21
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)201564—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Chiara?
A machine transcription gives /kjara/ (IPA) for Italian.
Where does the name Chiara come from?
Italian form of Clara, from Latin clarus 'clear, bright, famous'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
In which country does Chiara have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 165 thousand people named Chiara in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chiara.
What are other forms of the name Chiara?
In the etymology graph, Clara, Claire and Clare are forms of the same name in other languages; Claretta and Chiarina are recorded short or pet forms.
What does the name Chiara mean?
In Italian, egg white
How common is the name Chiara?
In Spain, the national register counted 2,369 people named Chiara, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
How common is Chiara compared with other names?
In Italy, Chiara is the 439th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.
Is Chiara a male or female name?
Chiara 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.

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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, “Chiara” — the 439th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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