Claire Girl
How popular is Claire?
#68 girl name in 2025
3,487 baby girls were named Claire in the US in 2025, making it the 68th most popular girl name.
Claire popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #68 for girls (▼ 1 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 3,487 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-28% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #49 in 2015, #58 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2016 (5,216 girls) |
| Highest rank | #40 in 2016 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Claire counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Claire family of names ranked #78 for girls in 2025 (#86 the year before), with 3,861 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Claire is most popular
Babies named Claire per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Wyoming: 6.8 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- Maine: 5.9 per 1,000 (92 girls)
- District of Columbia: 5.9 per 1,000 (70 girls)
- Utah: 5.5 per 1,000 (456 girls)
- North Dakota: 5.2 per 1,000 (68 girls)
Claire by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 448 | #265 |
| 1890s | 1,013 | #258 |
| 1900s | 1,858 | #213 |
| 1910s | 6,705 | #186 |
| 1920s | 14,994 | #134 |
| 1930s | 12,639 | #136 |
| 1940s | 10,261 | #194 |
| 1950s | 10,262 | #234 |
| 1960s | 5,944 | #315 |
| 1970s | 3,943 | #401 |
| 1980s | 10,844 | #171 |
| 1990s | 25,326 | #86 |
| 2000s | 39,009 | #53 |
| 2010s | 47,728 | #40 |
| 2020s | 20,945 | #58 |
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Questions
- Is Claire a boy or girl name?
- Claire is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Claire were girls.
- How popular is the name Claire?
- 3,487 baby girls were named Claire in the US in 2025, making it the 68th most popular girl name.
- When was Claire most popular?
- Claire peaked in 2016, when 5,216 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #40 in 2016.
- How many people are named Claire?
- 214,123 babies have been named Claire in the US since 1880. We estimate about 170,610 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 20.
- Where is Claire most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Claire was most common in Wyoming, at 6.8 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.