A FIELD REPORT ON THE NAME
Claire
spare · prim · tidy
Origin & Meaning
AI-WrittenThe name derives from the French feminine form of the Latin clarus, meaning clear or bright. It spread across medieval Europe through Chiara of Assisi in the early thirteenth century before English records absorbed the French spelling. In the United States, parents registered the name alongside Clara in 1880, treating it for decades as a restrained middle name before lifting it into the top forty in 2016.
Fig. 1 — Births per annum, 1880–2025
SSA Data 1880 peak: 5,216 souls, A.D. 2016 2025
2025: 3,487 born, falling ↘
Estimated Age
27 yrs
Most Claires were born around 2016 — old enough to remember phones with buttons.
Peak Reign
2016
№40 that year
Generation
Gen Z, 38%
then Gen Alpha 32% · Millennial 15%
Rarity
Top 500 all-time
≈214K ever born · now falling
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Claire grew up with
SSA DataZoom kindergarten·Alexa as a household member·Cocomelon
Data vs. Humans
What the data says
SSA Data
SSA: Claire peaked in 2016.
Estimated average age: 27.
What people think
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Claire sounds like someone born in —
Fig. 2 — Style Coordinates
AI Seed · Votes Override at n=30 Vintage Modern
Formal Casual
Soft Strong
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Public Opinion Ledger
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The public has not yet weighed in on Claire. Early ballots carry the most weight.
* Early ballots — fewer than 30 cast so far. The ledger settles at 30.
First Impressions
AI-WrittenThe name reads as tidy, direct, and distinctly twenty-first-century. A Claire tends to be pictured holding a stainless-steel water bottle and a color-coded weekly planner. Because seventy percent of living bearers belong to Generation Z or Generation Alpha, the name spends most of its time in lecture halls and middle schools. It is a single syllable that politely refuses to be shortened.
Field Notes
AI-WrittenField Note 01
The name waited one hundred and thirty-six years after its 1880 debut to reach its peak of about five thousand births in 2016.
Field Note 02
Almost entirely female across roughly 214,000 recorded births, it rarely caused a stray mark in the ledger.
Field Note 03
With an average age of twenty-seven, the name currently lives between apartment leases and first-time passport renewals.
Notable Claires
AI-WrittenClaire Danesactress, b. 1979
Claire Foyactress, b. 1984
Claire McCaskillpolitician, b. 1953
Ephemera — If Claire were a…
AI-WrittenCity
Portland, Maine
Color
Pale slate
Job
Copy editor
Beverage
Iced black tea with lemon
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