Claire — #67 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Claire

The Social Security Administration has registered 208,419 babies named Claire between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Claire currently holds the #67 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 5,216 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Claire performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 47,725 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Claire shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 19,014 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Claire in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Claire in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 208,419 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.