Klaire
Feminine · “bright”
Klaire is Claire with a K, and Claire is Latin for clear — the same word behind clarity, declare and clarion. It described brightness of light and of reputation together, and the two senses have never quite separated.
How old is the name Klaire?
Klaire first appears in US birth records in 1982 — 43 years ago. The typical Klaire is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,800 people named Klaire are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Klaire most popular?
Klaire peaked in 2012, reaching #1918 nationally. Today it ranks #2957, 1,039 places below that high. See the whole 2012 chart.
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Where it comes from
From clarus to Klaire
The story of Klaire
Clare of Assisi, who founded the order of Poor Clares in the thirteenth century after following Francis, made the name common across Catholic Europe. French took it as Claire, English as Clare and later Claire, and Latin kept Clara. Its American record has been steady for a century. Klaire belongs to the recent wave of K-respellings, which change the letters without touching the sound and mark the name as a family's own choice rather than an inheritance.
Meaning
bright, clear, famous
Latin clarus means clear, bright and, of a person, distinguished or renowned — the senses ran together, since to be clear was to be visible and to be visible was to be known. Clara is its feminine and Claire the French form. The reading is documented and undisputed. The K is a modern American respelling and changes nothing you can hear.
How the name formed
- clarus
- Clara
- Claire
- Klaire
Related forms: Claire · Clare · Chiara · Clara · Klara
Pronouncing Klaire
KLAIR
One syllable, rhyming with air. Said exactly as Claire; the K changes the spelling and nothing else. The Italian Chiara is two syllables, kee-AH-ra, which is the same name much less disguised.
Nicknames for Klaire
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1982
- Most girls named
- 2012103 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1918reached in 2012
- Change vs 2024
- −13.8%56 in 2025, from 65
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Klaire in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Claire in French — spelling variant
- Clare in English — spelling variant
- Chiara in Italian — same name
- Clara in Spanish — same name
- Klara in German — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.
Klaires among us
people named Klaire are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 28,701 born in 2025 was named Klaire
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Klaire
- #2957
- Klaire on the 2025 chart
- #78
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Klaire went to 56 girls in 2025, but Claire is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 3,543, which makes it the 78th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,879 places above the chart.
- Claire3,487
- Klaire56
About 1 girl in 454 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 28,701 for Klaire itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Camillia test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Klaire's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Camillia climbed just as high around 1987, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Camillia's path sketches the road Klaire is walking now.
Klaire sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Klaire is headed
Klaire should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Klaire beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Klaire in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- One syllable, said correctly by everyone at first sight.
- A documented Latin origin with a clear and cheerful meaning.
- Clara stands beside it as a longer and more formal alternative.
- Claire and Clare are the standard spellings and this one will be corrected for life.
- The K-respelling ties it closely to one moment in American naming.
- One syllable leaves nothing to shorten and no built-in longer form.
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Frequently asked
- How many Klaires are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Klaire are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Klaire?
- Klaire is one of 2 recorded spellings. Claire is the more common one — 3,487 births in 2025 against 56 for Klaire.
- How popular is the name Klaire in 2025?
- Klaire ranks #2957 among US girl names in 2025, with 56 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Klaire?
- About 1 in every 28,701 US girls born in 2025 was named Klaire — 56 in all.
- Will my child share the name Klaire with classmates?
- Klaire will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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