Clara
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Portuguese: a female given name, equivalent to English Clara or Claire
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/klæɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Clara 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.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 680(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 1.7K
- USUnited States1 in 3K
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 Clara 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)
- #765 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 385 (measured from records)
- 1 in 583 (inferred from the name graph)
126,362 people, 2022
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Klara in CZ Czechia, HU Hungary, SE Sweden, 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)
From Latin clarus, meaning “clear”/“bright”; Spanish form of Claire.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Clara is read(measured from records)
Clara is one spelling over 4 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.
- English35%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Clara in English.
- Spanish32%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Clara in Spanish.
- Portuguese13%
a female given name, equivalent to English Clara or Claire
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French11%
From Latin clarus, meaning “clear”/“bright”; Spanish form of Claire.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Du latin clarus, « clair, lumineux, brillant ». Fête: 11 août (sainte Claire).
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Du latin clarus, « clair, illustre ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Latin clara, 'clear, bright, famous'.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
Clara 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #156 | 126,362 | 1 in 1.7K | 126K | Clara | 197 |
| US United States | — | 109,248 | 1 in 3K | 109K | Clara | 385 |
| CZ Czechia | #188 | 79,200as Klára | 1 in 135 | 79K | Klara | 125 |
| FR France | — | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 938 | 101K | Clara | 7 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | listed | Kali | 65 |
| HU Hungary | #263 | 32,293as Klára | 1 in 303 | 32K | Klara | 110 |
| RO Romania | #95 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 807 | — | קלרה | 53 |
| SE Sweden | — | 16,804as Klara | 1 in 607 | 17K | Klara | 42 |
| PY Paraguay | #130 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 680 | — | Clara | 39 |
| DK Denmark | — | 10,060 | 1 in 583 | 10K | — | 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Clara 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.
In German, from Latin clarus 'bright, famous'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spainb. 1566ESInfanta of Spain, Archduchess of Austria (1566-1633)
- Clara Schumannb. 1819DEGerman musician and composer (1819–1896)
- Clara Bartonb. 1821USAmerican Civil War nurse (1821–1912)
- Clara Zetkinb. 1857DECommunist activist, and advocate for women's rights (1857–1933)
- Clara Haskilb. 1895CHRomanian-Swiss classical pianist (1895-1960)
- Clara Bowb. 1905USAmerican actress (1905–1965)
- Clara Calamaib. 1909ITItalian actress (1909-1998)
- Clara Rockmoreb. 1911USRussian-American musician (1911-1998)
- Clara Petaccib. 1912ITmistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (1912–1948)
- Patti Pageb. 1927USnot in their usual nameAmerican country-pop singer (1927–2013)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 145 sources across 70 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 126K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 126K | #257 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 109K | #519 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 101K | #90 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 83K | #538 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 18K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14K | #306 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10K | #72 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 8.8K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 3.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 672 | #257 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present) | 2024 | 302 | #15 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Clara?
- A machine transcription gives /klæɹə/ (IPA) for English.
- Where does the name Clara come from?
- From Latin clarus, meaning “clear”/“bright”; Spanish form of Claire. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Clara a male or female name?
- Clara 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 Clara 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 it is most often spelled clara.
- Where is Clara most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Clara is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 583 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Clara mean?
- In Portuguese, a female given name, equivalent to English Clara or Claire
- What are other forms of the name Clara?
- In the etymology graph, Claire, Clare and Clarice are forms of the same name in other languages; Clarette is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Clara?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 126,362 people named Clara in 2022, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Clara compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Clara is the 156th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/claraThe 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, “Clara” — the 156th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.