Clair

Where Clair comes from

A less common spelling of Claire.
— Wiktionary's entry for Clair
  • French
Clair through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #526 among boys, with 12 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1911
    Clair Engle born
    United States Senator from California
  3. 1913
    Peak, #288
    191 babies named Clair, its best rank.
  4. 1922
    Clair Cameron Patterson born
    American chemist and geochemist
  5. 1957
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #842.
  6. 1975
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Clair Cameron Patterson · American chemist and geochemist, 1922–1995
  • Clair Engle · United States Senator from California, 1911–1964
  • Clair Burgener · American politician, 1921–2006
  • Clair Alan Brown · English botanist, 1903–1982
  • Clair Cooper · British model, born 1982

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.