Klara
Klara was given to 112 girls in 2025, #1,804 among girls’ names; 3,087 Americans have been recorded with it since 1884 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,910 Americans named Klara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Klara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Klara mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Klara is “a female given name, variant of Clara.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Klara?
#1,804 among girls’ names, 2025
Klara rose from #1,836 in 2015 to #1,804 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 63.3 to 69.7 per million.
152 babies in 2019, the peak
Klara peaked in 2019, when 152 girls were given it, #1,457 among girls’ names. The 112 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112 | #1,804 | 69.7 |
| 2024 | 109 | #1,846 | 67.3 |
| 2023 | 110 | #1,830 | 68.6 |
| 2022 | 136 | #1,564 | 82.9 |
| 2021 | 106 | #1,880 | 64.6 |
| 2020 | 114 | #1,760 | 70.5 |
| 2019 | 152 | #1,457 | 90.6 |
| 2018 | 130 | #1,637 | 76.4 |
| 2017 | 113 | #1,826 | 65.5 |
| 2016 | 127 | #1,686 | 71.7 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 113 | #1,836 | 63.3 |
| 2014 | 112 | #1,825 | 62.7 |
| 2013 | 115 | #1,786 | 65.5 |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,948 | 57.4 |
| 2011 | 104 | #1,922 | 59.1 |
| 2010 | 96 | #2,070 | 54.0 |
| 2009 | 76 | #2,496 | 41.4 |
| 2008 | 88 | #2,245 | 46.5 |
| 2007 | 80 | #2,379 | 41.6 |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,687 | 35.2 |
| 2005 | 69 | #2,509 | 37.3 |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,630 | 34.3 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,686 | 32.3 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,800 | 30.1 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,024 | 26.1 |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,138 | 24.2 |
| 1999 | 35 | #3,540 | 19.7 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,389 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,741 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,386 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,152 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,307 | 13.4 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,733 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,863 | 8.7 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,268 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,957 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,753 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,745 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,688 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,963 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,968 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,531 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,294 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,818 | 3.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,552 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,600 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,485 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,545 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,005 | 3.9 |
| 1974 | 7 | #7,254 | 4.8 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,027 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,025 | 3.6 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,393 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,524 | 4.1 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,215 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,836 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,449 | 3.1 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,991 | 2.7 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,451 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,053 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,709 | 2.8 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,992 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,548 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,749 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,357 | 7.5 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,978 | 6.1 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,219 | 4.2 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,251 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,226 | 5.8 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,525 | 7.2 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,801 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,725 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,271 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,190 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,111 | 8.8 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,222 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,414 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,006 | 9.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,399 | 7.9 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,506 | 12.5 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,093 | 38.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Klara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Klara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Klara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Klara, and how old are they?
2,910 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 3,087 Americans ever recorded as Klara. The median Klara alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 3,916 people named Klara (3,913 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,272 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 31 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 54 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 249 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,540 |
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 Klara born?
The states with the most babies named Klara are Illinois, New York and Texas, with 65% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 13 | #727 | 1.3× |
| New York | 12 | #1,202 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 12 | #1,863 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,065 | 0.2× |
| California | 7 | #2,643 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,333 | 0.3× |
Where Klara is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Klara is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1910 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Klara 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 344,540 babies since 1880, Klara is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 112 of their 4,185 babies (2.7%), again the third 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 Klara
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 Klara and names like it
- Compare Klara and ClaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKlara peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Klara since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Klara.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Klara alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.