Meaning not yet researched.
Claira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 110 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,494 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,494 in 2014; #1,820 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Claira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,820 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #1,494.
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Claira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 110 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,494 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 149 (2014).
In 2025, 110 US girls were named Claira, making it the 1,820th most common girls’ name of the year, down 76 places from #1,744 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 116 girls named Claira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,494, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 149. For comparison, it was #1,581 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Claira in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1927 with 6 babies. In all, 2,727 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,299 babies named Claira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,136 US girls were named Claira; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 136. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,612 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Claira ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #1,172 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Clara (301,540 babies since 1880) and Klara (3,087 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Claira in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 7 | #1,172 | #1,189 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,258 | #1,146 |
| Florida | 10 | #1,347 | #1,282 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,582 | #1,089 |
| Texas | 6 | #3,009 | #1,839 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 110 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 2024 | 116 | #1,744 | — | — |
| 2023 | 89 | #2,145 | — | — |
| 2022 | 102 | #1,947 | — | — |
| 2021 | 97 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 2020 | 116 | #1,732 | — | — |
| 2019 | 112 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 2018 | 136 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 2017 | 127 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 2016 | 131 | #1,650 | — | — |
| 2015 | 138 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 2014 | 149 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 2013 | 133 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 2012 | 126 | #1,680 | — | — |
| 2011 | 125 | #1,682 | — | — |
| 2010 | 122 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 2009 | 102 | #2,019 | — | — |
| 2008 | 96 | #2,109 | — | — |
| 2007 | 78 | #2,423 | — | — |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,517 | — | — |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,275 | — | — |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,403 | — | — |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,011 | — | — |
| 2002 | 36 | #3,669 | — | — |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,646 | — | — |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,821 | — | — |
| 1999 | 42 | #3,111 | — | — |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,390 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,875 | — | — |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,584 | — | — |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,023 | — | — |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,389 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,190 | — | — |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,776 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,053 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,007 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,124 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,823 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,079 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,836 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,389 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).