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Klara

#1,804 in 2025Girls' name

Bright, shining, clear, through Clara

Klara has been given to 3,087 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #1,804 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 152 recorded.

Babies named Klara, 2025

1 in 29,600

Klara over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Klara: meaning, origin, and history

Bright, shining, clear, through Clara

Latin

What Klara means

Klara belongs to the name family reached through Klara → Clara. Its meaning is “bright, shining, clear”.

Origin, language, and formation

Klara is used in English, Danish, Faroese, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish and Swedish. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Clara.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Klara is pronounced [ˈklaːʁa].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,087 girls were recorded with the name Klara between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 152 in 2019; its best national rank was #1,093 in 1884.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,760 in 2020 to #1,804 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,836 in 2015 to #1,804 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 Klara?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,600
112 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,804
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,518 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Klara 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 20,518 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Klara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Klaras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Klara was born before 2013 — so the typical Klara is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,925
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.7% of all recorded uses (1,163).

Is Klara 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
+42
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−44
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+32
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.99×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.7%
Peak was 2019 (152)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
12.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,093
1884

Spellings of Klara

Klara is not the most common spelling — Laura is, with 26.9% against Klara's 0.10%.

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 Klara is used

Across 2016–2025, Klara was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 16,719 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 4,762
  2. 2Washington1 in 9,091
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 11,111
  4. 4New York1 in 11,111
  5. 5Indiana1 in 12,500
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 14,286
  7. 7Connecticut1 in 16,667
  8. 8Florida1 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.

Klara around the world

Where Klara 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
    1996–2025
    #719
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2025
    #539
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2000–2024
    #407
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    1971–2025
    #381
    in 2025
  • France
    1935–2025
    #1,652
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #54
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #963
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1954–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Klara

People whose public names include Klara, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Klara in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Klara. Linked forms have their own page here.

ClaraChiaraClaireKlaaraKlaartje

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Klara by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,804
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 44
Best rank ever
#1,093
1884
Peak year
2019
152 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,087
Count in 2025
112

Names similar to Klara

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

KlaireAdaraKyaraInaraAlaraSiaraSharaKlaniElaraMearaZaharaAtaraNiaraKlarissaAdharaCharaKamaraSwaraSaharaKeyaraKlaudiaLiaraAinaraDiara

Names with a curve like Klara

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

ZainaAislynnRaleighCosetteAlessaRaizySymphonyLakynNailaSkylynnAmeerahKaliah

Sibling names for Klara

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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