Claira
#1,818 for girls in 2025, 110 births
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 149 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,727since 1927
Claira over time
Rank among girls' names. Claira has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,818 | 110 |
| 2024 | #1,743 | 116 |
| 2023 | #2,142 | 89 |
| 2022 | #1,942 | 102 |
| 2021 | #1,991 | 97 |
| 2020 | #1,728 | 116 |
| 2019 | #1,816 | 112 |
| 2018 | #1,585 | 136 |
| 2017 | #1,686 | 127 |
| 2016 | #1,649 | 131 |
| 2015 | #1,580 | 138 |
| 2014 | #1,493 | 149 |
| 2013 | #1,616 | 133 |
| 2012 | #1,680 | 126 |
| 2011 | #1,679 | 125 |
| 2010 | #1,713 | 122 |
| 2009 | #2,016 | 102 |
| 2008 | #2,106 | 96 |
| 2007 | #2,418 | 78 |
| 2006 | #2,512 | 73 |
| 2005 | #3,257 | 47 |
| 2004 | #3,391 | 44 |
| 2003 | #2,999 | 50 |
| 2002 | #3,654 | 36 |
| 2001 | #3,631 | 36 |
| 2000 | #3,808 | 33 |
| 1999 | #3,099 | 42 |
| 1998 | #4,366 | 25 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 |
| 1996 | #5,531 | 17 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 |
| 1992 | #5,718 | 16 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 |
| 1990 | #7,880 | 10 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
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| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 |
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Claira! It came in at #4,286, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1928–1987, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Claira is popular in 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#436 · 1 in 1,851
- Colorado#614 · 1 in 2,905
- Utah#646 · 1 in 3,019
- Michigan#756 · 1 in 4,217
- Minnesota#859 · 1 in 4,937
Best ever in a state: #265 in Idaho, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Iowa | #436 | 7 | 1 in 1,851 |
| Colorado | #614 | 8 | 1 in 2,905 |
| Utah | #646 | 6 | 1 in 3,019 |
| Michigan | #756 | 10 | 1 in 4,217 |
| Minnesota | #859 | 5 | 1 in 4,937 |
| Ohio | #877 | 10 | 1 in 5,294 |
| Indiana | #909 | 6 | 1 in 5,090 |
| Tennessee | #940 | 6 | 1 in 5,186 |
| Virginia | #1,164 | 5 | 1 in 7,463 |
| North Carolina | #1,363 | 5 | 1 in 9,024 |
| Illinois | #1,605 | 5 | 1 in 11,794 |
| Florida | #2,003 | 5 | 1 in 16,746 |
| Texas | #2,336 | 8 | 1 in 20,847 |
| California | #3,039 | 6 | 1 in 34,944 |
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See more about Claira
- 75 spots since 2024 (#1,743 → #1,818)
- 90 spots since 2020 (#1,728 → #1,818)
- 238 spots since 2015 (#1,580 → #1,818)
- Debuted 1927
- Peaked 2014 at #1,493 (149 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,989 girls born in 2014 were named Claira (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,612 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 47.6% of all girls named Claira (1,299) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1920s | 11 | #4,286 (1927) | #4,506 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 5 | #4,960 (1946) | #4,960 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 15 | #7,691 (1988) | #9,269 |
| 1990s | 172 | #3,099 (1999) | #6,164 |
| 2000s | 595 | #2,016 (2009) | #2,979 |
| 2010s | 1,299 | #1,493 (2014) | #1,650 |
| 2020s | 630 | #1,728 (2020) | #1,894 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Claira in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 11,989 of them was named Claira, which outranked 92.2% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,487Carrie150
- #1,487Nailah150
- #1,487Queen150
- #1,493Claira149
- #1,493Alba149
- #1,493Evelina149
- #1,493Ida149
- #1,502Ariane148
- #1,502Emiliana148
- #1,502Irie148
Tied with 8 names at #1,493; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.