Cla

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Initialism of Contributor License Agreement

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States≈1 in 4.7M(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland≈1 in 88K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 99K

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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈630 people, est.

Sources
78 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 88K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Initialism of Contributor License Agreement.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cla 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 Cla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy≈630 est.≈1 in 99K—Cla9
DE Germany≈260 est.≈1 in 306K—Cla32
CH Switzerland≈96 est.≈1 in 88K—Cla13
PH Philippines≈73 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Cla20
US United States≈71 est.≈1 in 4.7M—Cla78
AT Austria≈34 est.≈1 in 259K—Cla7
BR Brazil241 in 8.8M42—1
SG Singapore≈13 est.≈1 in 486K—Cla7

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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

Cla is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Çlá, Clà, Clá, Clã, C'La

  • French given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium

    Also written C'La, Clã, C'Là, Clà, Clå

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Clà, Clá

  • Italian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Switzerland

    Also written Clà, Clã

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Italy

    Also written Clá, Clã, Clā

42 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)

Cla is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In cdo, to cover over, to screen -c1a-ang-moh-moh JEWROO shaded till it is very dark

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

  • In frp, alternative form of cllâf (“key”)

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

  • ISO 639-3 language code for Ron.

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

  • In Filipino, abbreviation of sila

    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)

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Cla
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202224—

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

What does the name Cla mean, and where does it come from?
Initialism of Contributor License Agreement. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Cla?
A machine transcription gives /klə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Cla a male or female name?
Cla 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.
In which country does Cla have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 631 people named Cla in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cla.
How common is the name Cla?
In Brazil, the national register counted 24 people named Cla in 2022, about 1 in 8.8 million residents.

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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, “Cla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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