- Claire (given name)
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Claire Gender Traditionally male, but in modern times more often female Origin Word/Name French/Latin Meaning bright, clear Other names Related names Clair, Clare, Clara, Clarissa [1] Claire or Clair is a given name of Latin origin via French; the name could mean "clear" or "famous",[1] and is pronounced /ˈklɛər/. The word still means clear in French.[2]
Its popularity in the United Kingdom peaked during the 1970s and 1980s; in 1974 in was the second most popular female first name and in 1984 was still sixth, but by 1997 it had fallen out of the top 100 after several years of sharply declining popularity.[3]
The name was traditionally considered male, specifically when spelled Clair;[4] however, it is now commonly used as a female name and is usually spelled Claire.
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Women with the given name Claire
- Clare of Assisi (born 1194), Italian saint, founder of the Poor Clares
- Princess Claire of Belgium (born 1974)
- Claire Danes (born 1979), American actress
- Claire Etcherelli (born 1934), French novelist
- Claire Forlani (born 1972), entertainer
- Claire Harris (born 1937), Canadian poet
- Claire Hooper (born 1976), Australian comedian
- Claire Martin (author) (born 1914), pseudonym of Canadian author Claire Montreuil
- Claire Martin (meteorologist), British-born television weather presenter, now living in Canada
- Claire Martin (singer) (born 1967), British jazz singer
- Claire McCaskill (born 1953), Senator from Missouri
- Claire Rayner (born 1931), English journalist and agony aunt
- Claire Skinner (born 1965), British actress
Fictional characters
- Claire Bennet in the TV series Heroes
- Claire Fisher in the TV series Six Feet Under
- Claire Littleton in the TV series Lost
- Claire Redfield in the video game series Resident Evil
- Clair Huxtable in the TV series The Cosby Show
- Clair in the Pokémon universe
- Claire Foley in the Professor Layton universe
- Claire Fraser in the novel Outlander and its sequels
Men with the given name Claire
- Lt. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault (1893–1958), American aviator, WW2 commander of the "Flying Tigers"
- Clair Cameron Patterson (1922 – 1995), American geochemist, who developed the lead-lead isotopic dating method and used it to calculate the age of the Earth as 4.55 billion years
Fictional characters
- Claire Stanfield, from the light novel series Baccano!
See also
- Clara (given name)
- Clare (given name)
- Claire (disambiguation)
References
- ^ a b Levinson, Sarena. "Claire", Wiki.Name, accessed August 8, 2010
- ^ WordReference.com
- ^ BabyNames.co.uk
- ^ Behind the Name - Clair
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