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Claira

#1,820 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Latin origin

Claira has been given to 2,727 babies in the U.S. since 1927. In 2025 it ranked #1,820 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 149 recorded.

Babies named Claira, 2025

1 in 30,100

Claira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Claira: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Latin origin

Latin

What Claira means

Claira is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Claira is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,727 girls were recorded with the name Claira between 1927 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 149 in 2014; its best national rank was #1,494 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,732 in 2020 to #1,820 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,581 in 2015 to #1,820 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Claira?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 30,100
110 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,820
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,891 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Claira sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,891 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Claira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Clairas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Claira was born before 2014 — so the typical Claira is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,711
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Choose a decade

2010s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (1,299).

Is Claira rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−76
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−88
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−239
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.8%
Peak was 2014 (149)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,494
2014

Spellings of Claira

Claira is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 45.8% against Claira's 0.16%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Claira is used

Across 2016–2025, Claira was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 21,722 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

115 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 6,667
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 7,143
  3. 3Michigan1 in 8,333
  4. 4Utah1 in 9,091
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in 11,111
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 11,111
  7. 7Wisconsin1 in 14,286
  8. 8Ohio1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Claira around the world

Where Claira ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2012
    #5,876
    in 2012
  • France
    1906–1921
    #1,103
    in 1921
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1990–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Claira by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,820
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 88
Best rank ever
#1,494
2014
Peak year
2014
149 that year
First recorded
1927
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,727
Count in 2025
110

Names similar to Claira

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Claira

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Claira, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Claira

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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