| [ 1 syll. clai-re, cl-a-ire ] The girl name Claire is pronounced as KLEHR KEY. Claire is used predominantly in the English and French languages. Its origin is Latin. Claire is a variant of the name Clare (English). See also the related form, Sinclair (English). Claire is popular as a baby girl name. The name's popularity has been growing since the 1970s. Its usage peaked recently in 2007 with 0.219% of baby girls being given the name Claire. It was #66 in rank then. Among all girl names in its family, Claire was the most popular in 2007. Claire was used 10 times more than the subsequent ranked name, Clare (English), in that year. The name Claire has primarily been a girl name, though it has also been given to boys in the last century. In 1936, 26 times as many girls than boys were given the name Claire. Baby names that sound like Claire include Clare (English), Clara (Catalan, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish), Klara (German, Latvian, Polish, Russian, Scandinavian, Slavic, and Ukrainian), Klára (Czech and Hungarian), Kyler (English), and Cleora (English). KEY: Pronunciation for Claire: 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)"
A famous person named Claire is Claire Danes, Actress, born 12 April 1979, New York, New York. |