Claire

Where Claire comes from

Borrowed from French Claire, also a spelling variant of the English Clare.
— Wiktionary's entry for Claire
  • French
  • 1 syllable
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #352 among girls — 21 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1979
    Claire Danes born
    American actor
  3. 1988
    Claire Holt born
    Australian actress
  4. 2016
    Peak, #40
    5,216 babies named Claire — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, of rare usage, variant of Clare.
Namesakes
  • Claire Danes · American actor, born 1979
  • Claire Holt · Australian actress, born 1988
  • Claire Foy · British actress, born 1984
  • Claire Trevor · American actress, 1910–2000
  • Claire Forlani · British actress, born 1971

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.