Claira
Claira was given to 110 girls in 2025, #1,820 among girls’ names; 2,727 Americans have been recorded with it since 1927 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,690 Americans named Claira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Claira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Claira mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Claira is “a female given name from Latin, a rare nonstandard spelling of Clara.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Claira?
#1,820 among girls’ names, 2025
Claira fell from #1,581 in 2015 to #1,820 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 77.3 to 68.4 per million.
149 babies in 2014, the peak
Claira peaked in 2014, when 149 girls were given it, #1,494 among girls’ names. The 110 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 110 | #1,820 | 68.4 |
| 2024 | 116 | #1,744 | 71.6 |
| 2023 | 89 | #2,145 | 55.5 |
| 2022 | 102 | #1,947 | 62.2 |
| 2021 | 97 | #1,996 | 59.1 |
| 2020 | 116 | #1,732 | 71.8 |
| 2019 | 112 | #1,819 | 66.7 |
| 2018 | 136 | #1,585 | 79.9 |
| 2017 | 127 | #1,689 | 73.6 |
| 2016 | 131 | #1,650 | 73.9 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 138 | #1,581 | 77.3 |
| 2014 | 149 | #1,494 | 83.4 |
| 2013 | 133 | #1,618 | 75.8 |
| 2012 | 126 | #1,680 | 71.5 |
| 2011 | 125 | #1,682 | 71.1 |
| 2010 | 122 | #1,713 | 68.6 |
| 2009 | 102 | #2,019 | 55.5 |
| 2008 | 96 | #2,109 | 50.8 |
| 2007 | 78 | #2,423 | 40.6 |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,517 | 38.4 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,271 | 25.4 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,399 | 24.0 |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,008 | 27.4 |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,665 | 20.0 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,642 | 20.0 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,816 | 18.2 |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,108 | 23.7 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,387 | 14.1 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,870 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,579 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,018 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,383 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,184 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,770 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,046 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,001 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,118 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,818 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,077 | 3.2 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,834 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,387 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Claira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Claira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Claira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Claira, and how old are they?
2,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,727 Americans ever recorded as Claira. The median Claira alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 2,074 people named Claira (2,066 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,100 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 3 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 107 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,040 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,550 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Claira born?
The states with the most babies named Claira are Florida, Ohio and Texas, with 70% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Claira with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 558,595 babies since 1880, Claira is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 110 of their 7,672 babies (1.4%), again the fifth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Claira
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Claira and names like it
- Compare Claira and ClaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sClaira peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Claira since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Claira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Claira alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.