Claira

Where Claira comes from

The dictionaries list Claira as a given name — a female given name from Latin, a rare nonstandard spelling of Clara — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Latin
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1927
    First appearance
    #4,286 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2014
    Peak, #1,493
    149 babies named Claira — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin, a rare nonstandard spelling of Clara.
Namesakes

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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.