girls:
205.1k births since 1880
#193 (97th percentile)
boys:
2.2k births since 1885
#2682 (41st percentile)
overall:
207.3k births since 1880
#379 (95th percentile)
The name Claire is the #379 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 207,278 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #193 (96.6% percentile) for all time with 205,074 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #2,682 (41.5% percentile) for all time with 2,204 births since 1885.
Claire has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1885 for boys).
The name Claire has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Claire reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 95.9% percentile (ranked #40) with 2,694 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 2,694 births per million (ranked 95.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Claire ranks #65 for girls (93.2% percentile) with 1,827 births per million, which is 67.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Claire reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 12.5% percentile (ranked #468) with 65 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 133 births per million (ranked 5.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Claire".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Claire. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Claire is pronounced as klair, which has 1 syllables.
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