Clair

Where Clair comes from

A less common spelling of Claire.
— Wiktionary's entry for Clair
  • French
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #526 among boys — 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 — more than any year before or since.
  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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
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.