Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: ItalianClara or Klara is a given name. It is the feminine form of the Late Latin name Clarus which meant "clear, bright, famous".
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Clara yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Two peaks, thirty-three years apart, and they mean different things. Clara's rank high of 7 came in 1885, when a handful of names covered most of the field. Its raw birth high of 5,778 arrived in 1918, by which point it had already slipped down the rankings. That gap is the clearest illustration on this site of why rank and count are not interchangeable measures. What makes Clara unusual today is direction: up 7% over the past decade, to 3,060 births and rank 78, while most names of similar vintage keep sliding. It has appeared in every decade since 1880 and carries an all-time total of 297,914. The namesakes skew European and pre-war — Clara Schumann, born 1819, Clara Zetkin, Clara Bow — which suits a name that reads as recovered rather than invented.
Why did you choose this name — or what does it mean to you? Approved stories appear on this page.
→ See names similar to Clara · Compare Clara with another name → · Popular names of the 1910s · Girls names starting with C
Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 1,226 | #12 |
| 1881 | 1,242 | #11 |
| 1882 | 1,490 | #11 |
| 1883 | 1,548 | #10 |
| 1884 | 1,852 | #8 |
| 1885 | 1,910 | #7 |
| 1886 | 1,916 | #9 |
| 1887 | 1,984 | #8 |
| 1888 | 2,230 | #11 |
| 1889 | 2,319 | #10 |
| 1890 | 2,496 | #9 |
| 1891 | 2,360 | #11 |
| 1892 | 2,661 | #10 |
| 1893 | 2,532 | #11 |
| 1894 | 2,603 | #11 |
| 1895 | 2,613 | #12 |
| 1896 | 2,582 | #14 |
| 1897 | 2,454 | #15 |
| 1898 | 2,731 | #14 |
| 1899 | 2,441 | #14 |
| 1900 | 2,826 | #19 |
| 1901 | 2,319 | #18 |
| 1902 | 2,432 | #21 |
| 1903 | 2,342 | #20 |
| 1904 | 2,281 | #24 |
| 1905 | 2,397 | #22 |
| 1906 | 2,228 | #27 |
| 1907 | 2,319 | #29 |
| 1908 | 2,352 | #31 |
| 1909 | 2,403 | #32 |
| 1910 | 2,665 | #32 |
| 1911 | 2,691 | #33 |
| 1912 | 3,480 | #34 |
| 1913 | 3,633 | #36 |
| 1914 | 4,240 | #37 |
| 1915 | 5,285 | #38 |
| 1916 | 5,544 | #39 |
| 1917 | 5,626 | #41 |
| 1918 | 5,778 | #43 |
| 1919 | 5,404 | #43 |
| 1920 | 5,470 | #44 |
| 1921 | 5,606 | #45 |
| 1922 | 5,126 | #47 |
| 1923 | 5,134 | #49 |
| 1924 | 4,988 | #56 |
| 1925 | 4,776 | #55 |
| 1926 | 4,464 | #61 |
| 1927 | 4,365 | #63 |
| 1928 | 4,106 | #65 |
| 1929 | 4,148 | #65 |
| 1930 | 4,124 | #64 |
| 1931 | 3,899 | #61 |
| 1932 | 3,564 | #70 |
| 1933 | 3,412 | #67 |
| 1934 | 3,222 | #76 |
| 1935 | 3,067 | #81 |
| 1936 | 2,684 | #91 |
| 1937 | 2,573 | #100 |
| 1938 | 2,662 | #98 |
| 1939 | 2,451 | #103 |
| 1940 | 2,316 | #111 |
| 1941 | 2,300 | #111 |
| 1942 | 2,246 | #122 |
| 1943 | 2,083 | #133 |
| 1944 | 1,931 | #134 |
| 1945 | 1,800 | #136 |
| 1946 | 1,913 | #145 |
| 1947 | 1,935 | #150 |
| 1948 | 1,793 | #160 |
| 1949 | 1,711 | #168 |
| 1950 | 1,571 | #178 |
| 1951 | 1,549 | #186 |
| 1952 | 1,511 | #196 |
| 1953 | 1,383 | #212 |
| 1954 | 1,185 | #234 |
| 1955 | 1,300 | #224 |
| 1956 | 1,147 | #247 |
| 1957 | 1,109 | #258 |
| 1958 | 1,027 | #276 |
| 1959 | 987 | #287 |
| 1960 | 914 | #309 |
| 1961 | 878 | #314 |
| 1962 | 798 | #331 |
| 1963 | 750 | #345 |
| 1964 | 699 | #357 |
| 1965 | 569 | #386 |
| 1966 | 551 | #387 |
| 1967 | 515 | #404 |
| 1968 | 413 | #473 |
| 1969 | 417 | #471 |
| 1970 | 358 | #530 |
| 1971 | 339 | #540 |
| 1972 | 367 | #487 |
| 1973 | 332 | #515 |
| 1974 | 317 | #529 |
| 1975 | 337 | #522 |
| 1976 | 314 | #548 |
| 1977 | 297 | #581 |
| 1978 | 287 | #594 |
| 1979 | 342 | #547 |
| 1980 | 392 | #511 |
| 1981 | 321 | #579 |
| 1982 | 327 | #561 |
| 1983 | 310 | #577 |
| 1984 | 319 | #578 |
| 1985 | 357 | #554 |
| 1986 | 388 | #527 |
| 1987 | 406 | #513 |
| 1988 | 421 | #523 |
| 1989 | 426 | #536 |
| 1990 | 467 | #515 |
| 1991 | 529 | #463 |
| 1992 | 536 | #460 |
| 1993 | 596 | #418 |
| 1994 | 592 | #427 |
| 1995 | 661 | #397 |
| 1996 | 669 | #396 |
| 1997 | 654 | #399 |
| 1998 | 768 | #371 |
| 1999 | 794 | #370 |
| 2000 | 879 | #353 |
| 2001 | 958 | #323 |
| 2002 | 1,031 | #303 |
| 2003 | 1,059 | #294 |
| 2004 | 1,170 | #282 |
| 2005 | 1,331 | #246 |
| 2006 | 1,497 | #231 |
| 2007 | 1,554 | #226 |
| 2008 | 1,654 | #204 |
| 2009 | 1,649 | #199 |
| 2010 | 1,842 | #167 |
| 2011 | 2,078 | #151 |
| 2012 | 2,335 | #136 |
| 2013 | 2,508 | #131 |
| 2014 | 2,860 | #108 |
| 2015 | 3,070 | #98 |
| 2016 | 3,075 | #100 |
| 2017 | 3,044 | #95 |
| 2018 | 2,892 | #103 |
| 2019 | 2,950 | #95 |
| 2020 | 2,696 | #103 |
| 2021 | 2,693 | #101 |
| 2022 | 2,552 | #110 |
| 2023 | 2,661 | #98 |
| 2024 | 3,060 | #78 |
