Klara

given name · Latin script

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

Klara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Romania it is the 95th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Klara är ett latinskt namn, bildat till latinets clarus ’klar; berömd’.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 135(measured from records)
  • HUHungary1 in 303
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 680as Clara

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 Klara 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.

Brazil (measured from records)

126,362 named Clara, 2022

#765 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
385 (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)

ClaraLatin(measured from records)
КлараCyrillic(measured from records)
קלרהHebrew(measured from records)
โขลาThai(measured from records)
კლარაGeorgian(measured from records)
ΚλάραGreek(measured from records)
칼라Hangul(measured from records)
కోలTelugu(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Clara in BR Brazil, US United States, FR France and 1 more, Kali in ID Indonesia and קלרה in RO Romania.

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)

recorded in Swedish

Klara är ett latinskt namn, bildat till latinets clarus ’klar; berömd’. Clare är en engelsk form, Claire en fransk och Chiara (→ Kiara) en italiensk. Namnet har varit ett av de populäraste flicknamnen under flera decennier men är nu på nedgång. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 12 augusti, till minne av Sankta Clara av Assisi (död 1253).

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

How Klara is read(measured from records)

Klara is one spelling over 6 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.

  • German18%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Klara in German.

  • English17%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Klara in English.

  • Polish14%

    Clara, Clare

    as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)

  • Croatian9.9%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Klara in Croatian.

  • Swedish6.2%

    Klara är ett latinskt namn, bildat till latinets clarus ’klar; berömd’. Clare är en engelsk form, Claire en fransk och Chiara (→ Kiara) en italiensk. Namnet har varit ett av de populäraste flicknamnen under flera decennier men är nu på nedgång. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 12 augusti, till minne av Sankta Clara av Assisi (död 1253).

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • Ukrainian6.0%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Klara in Ukrainian.

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)

Klara 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 Klara is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#156126,362as Clara1 in 1.7K126KClara197
US United States—109,248as Clara1 in 3K109KClara385
CZ Czechia#18879,2001 in 13579KKlara125
FR France—≈72,000 est.≈1 in 938101KClara7
ID Indonesia—≈58,000 est.≈1 in 4.6KlistedKali65
HU Hungary#26332,2931 in 30332KKlara110
RO Romania#95≈26,000 est.≈1 in 807—קלרה53
SE Sweden—16,8041 in 60717KKlara42
PY Paraguay#130≈11,000 est.≈1 in 680—Clara39
DK Denmark—10,060as Clara1 in 58310K—3

126,362 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); MVČR — living population register 2017; Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Klara is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Sweden

    Languages: German, Dutch

    Also written Klára, Kla-Ra

  • English given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Czechia, Hungary, Australia

    Languages: English, Czech, Hungarian

    Also written Klára

  • Swedish given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Denmark, United States, Norway

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Klára, Klāra

  • Portuguese given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Mexico

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian

    Also written Klára

  • Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Finland, Switzerland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Klára

  • Albanian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States

    Also written Klárà, Klãrã, Klara️, Klàra, Klára

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Klāra, Klára, Klārā, Klära, Klàra

39 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)

Klara 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.

  • German, Dutch, Russian, Polish, and Scandinavian form of CLARA . Pet form: Dutch: Klaartje .

    as a word

  • In non, indefinite accusative/genitive plural of karl

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

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, simple past of klare (Verb 1)

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

  • In Esperanto, 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)

100012001400160018002000Clare of Assisi, b. 1194Klara Hitler, b. 1860Klara Zamenhof, b. 1863Clara Immerwahr, b. 1870Klara Rumyanova, b. 1929Klara Geywitz, b. 1976Clara-Jumi Kang, b. 1987Klara Deutschmann, b. 1989Amanda Tenfjord, b. 1997Klara Bühl, b. 2000

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 94 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Klara
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—17K#256
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202010K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.9K#4,668
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—2.9K#201
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20242.1K#2,107
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.9K#5,270
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—572#13,189
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—194#963
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020188—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025112—
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—97#1,062

Reference works 6

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

In which country does Klara have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 126 thousand people named Clara, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Klara most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Klara is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 135 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Klara mean?
Recorded meaning: Klara är ett latinskt namn, bildat till latinets clarus ’klar; berömd’.
How common is the name Klara?
In Czechia, the national register counted 79,200 people named Klara, about 1 in 135 residents.
How common is Klara compared with other names?
In Brazil, Klara is the 156th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
Is Klara a male or female name?
Klara 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 Klara?
In the etymology graph, Clara, Claire and Clare are forms of the same name in other languages.

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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, “Klara” — the 156th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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