Meaning and history
French form of Clarus (see Clara); as an English name, it is unisex and is sometimes considered a variant of Claire.
20062006: 47 births, rank #3,414
2007: 62 births, rank #2,890
2008: 64 births, rank #2,802
2009: 56 births, rank #3,047
2010: 43 births, rank #3,624
20112011: 51 births, rank #3,222
2012: 56 births, rank #3,006
2013: 45 births, rank #3,465
2014: 57 births, rank #2,969
2015: 48 births, rank #3,346
20162016: 31 births, rank #4,531
2017: 29 births, rank #4,695
2018: 33 births, rank #4,237
2019: 40 births, rank #3,718
2020: 31 births, rank #4,358
20212021: 26 births, rank #4,964
2022: 18 births, rank #6,464
2023: 28 births, rank #4,746
2024: 30 births, rank #4,560
20252025: 29 births, rank #4,661
Clair moved from #900 to #976 for boys between 1963 and 1965. Its highest annual birth count came in 1923, with 356 births.