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 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#559 · 1 in 2,399
- Indiana#903 · 1 in 4,804
- Pennsylvania#1,030 · 1 in 6,236
- Michigan#1,076 · 1 in 6,647
- Texas#2,309 · 1 in 19,819
Best ever in a state: #265 in Idaho, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #559 | 7 | 1 in 2,399 |
| Indiana | #903 | 6 | 1 in 4,804 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,030 | 8 | 1 in 6,236 |
| Michigan | #1,076 | 6 | 1 in 6,647 |
| Texas | #2,309 | 8 | 1 in 19,819 |
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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 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 14,985 of them was named Claira, which outranked 89.9% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,802Theia113
- #1,802Verity113
- #1,802Yvonne113
- #1,816Claira112
- #1,816Anaisha112
- #1,816Camden112
- #1,816Carol112
- #1,833Calla111
- #1,833Charlene111
- #1,833Kaidence111
Tied with 16 names at #1,816; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.