Clara
For 2025 the count puts Clara at #63 nationwide, and rising year over year. The peak was 1918, a name your child would share with a great-aunt, which is quietly part of its charm.
What Clara carries
Clara · Latin
“famous”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Clara’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Clara, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Clara since 1880
Clara peaked in 1918 at #43; #63 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Clara is most common
By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Clara runs strongest in Vermont at 1.13% in 2025, then North Dakota and Nebraska.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Clara
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Vivian
#72 in 2025 · Latin
Rose
#114 in 2025 · Latin
Mabel
#201 in 2025 · Latin
Claire
#68 in 2025 · Latin
Evelyn
#8 in 2025 · Latin
Silas
#71 in 2025 · Latin
Adrian
#74 in 2025 · Latin
Stella
#52 in 2025 · Latin
Browse: names starting with C · Latin names · all names
About Clara
How popular is the name Clara?
For 2025 the count puts Clara at #63 nationwide, and rising year over year. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Clara mean?
In our cited reference the recorded gloss is “famous”, of Latin origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Clara?
Vivian, Rose and Mabel sit nearest to Clara on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
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