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Claire
Pronounced /ˈklɛə/
Rank in 2024
#67
Born in 2024
3,329
Peak year
2016 · #40
Origin
French
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 3,329 girls were named Claire, about 1 in every 485.
- It peaked in 2016 with 5,216 babies, ranked #40.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 208,419 girls have been named Claire since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Claire per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.0Greatest1901–27
- 1.1Silent1928–45
- 0.5Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.9Millennials1981–96
- 2.2Gen Z1997–12
- 2.5Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 19,968 babies, 0.98 per 1,000. Silent: 21,925 babies, 1.06 per 1,000. Boomers: 18,471 babies, 0.52 per 1,000. Gen X: 6,657 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Millennials: 25,187 babies, 0.89 per 1,000. Gen Z: 64,181 babies, 2.21 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 50,413 babies, 2.48 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from French Claire, also a spelling variant of the English Clare.
- A female given name from French.
- A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Clare.
- Origin
- French
- Say it
- /ˈklɛə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Claire, CC BY-SA 4.0.