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Clair - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Clair

[ 1 syll. clai(r), cl-a-ir ] The girl name Clair is also used as a boy name, with the latter form being far more popular. It is pronounced KLEHR KEY. Clair's origin is Latin, and its use, English. Clair is a form of the English Clare. Clair is also an English spelling variant of the English and French Claire.

Clair is not often used as a baby girl name. It is not in the top 1000 names. Within the family of girl names directly related to Clair, the English and French Claire was the most regularly used in 2008. Clair has in the last century been mainly given to boys.

Baby names that sound like Clair include the English and French Claire, the English Clare, the Catalan, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish Clara, the English Clari, the English Clarie, the Czech, German, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Scandinavian, Slavic, and Ukrainian Klara, the Czech and Hungarian Klára, the English Kyler, the English Cleora, the name Kalere, and the Greek Kallirroe.

KEY: Pronunciation for Clair: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)"


 
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