Cláire
given name · Latin script
Cláire is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 163,948 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. In France it is the 83rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French claire, the feminine form of clair (“clear”).
- USUnited States1 in 2K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 3.3K
- SESweden1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 446 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
163,948 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Claire in FR France, US United States, ES Spain 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)Borrowed from French claire, the feminine form of clair (“clear”).
Cited for this meaning 5
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cláire 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 163,948 | 1 in 2K | 163K | Claire | 379 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,142 | 1 in 185K | 1.1K | Claire | 96 |
| SE Sweden | — | 939 | 1 in 11K | 939 | — | 26 |
| ES Spain | #779 | 567 | 1 in 88K | 567 | Claire | 74 |
| DK Denmark | — | 502 | 1 in 12K | 502 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 224 | 1 in 3.3K | 224 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 136 | 1 in 41K | 722 | — | 9 |
| FR France | #83 | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | 160K | Claire | 446 |
163,948 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cláire mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from French claire, the feminine form of clair (“clear”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 3 other sources.
- Which countries have the most people named Cláire?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 164 thousand people named Cláire, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled claire. After it come Brazil, Sweden, Spain and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Cláire most common?
- Cláire is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cláire?
- In the United States, the national register counted 163,948 people named Cláire in 2020, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Cláire compared with other names?
- In France, Cláire is the 83rd most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cl%C3%A1ireThe 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, “Cláire” — ranked 340th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.