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Claira

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Claira is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 116 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
1160.01% of girls
Peak year
2014149 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1927
2,616people given the name
Babies named Claira, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

2,616 girls have been named Claira in the United States since 1927, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 149 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2014, and the 2010s alone account for 50%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Claira
1920s11
1940s5
1980s15
1990s172
2000s595
2010s1,299
2020s519

In 2014, its biggest year

Claira was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2014 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Isabella and Ava. See all of 2014.

Names that rose and fell with Claira

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.