Claire

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Claire".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
205,074
Peak Births
5,216
Peak Year
2016
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
95.9%
Current Percentile
93.2%
Peak Rank
#40
Current Rank
#65
Female statistics
Total Births
2,204
Peak Births
75
Peak Year
1920
First Recorded
1885
Peak Percentile
12.5%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#207
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Claire

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Claire. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Claire is pronounced as klair.

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klair (1 syllable)
Verified
100.0% confidence
K L EH1 R

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Claire. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Claire, please vote using the thumbs up button.

KLAH-ruh (2 syllables)
4 names 297.7k births
K L AA1 R AH0
KLEH-ruh (2 syllables)
8 names 297.7k births
K L EH1 R AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like K L EH1 R) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.