Clair
Clair is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 288th, in 1913.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1923356 births
- Best rank
- #288in 1913
- Since 1880
- 16,322people given the name
The story in the numbers
12,041 boys have been named Clair in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 356 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 356 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 85 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Clair is used for both sexes: 26% of its bearers are girls (4,281), most of them born around 1991.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Clair | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 156 | |
| 1890s | 295 | |
| 1900s | 397 | |
| 1910s | 2,212 | |
| 1920s | 3,169 | |
| 1930s | 2,319 | |
| 1940s | 1,541 | |
| 1950s | 1,061 | |
| 1960s | 513 | |
| 1970s | 199 | |
| 1980s | 110 | |
| 1990s | 42 | |
| 2000s | 12 | |
| 2010s | 10 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1923, its biggest year
Clair was the 295th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1923 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Clair
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Virgilpeak 1921
- Hubertpeak 1924
- Loydpeak 1926
- Ottispeak 1920
- Wilfredpeak 1920
- Orvillepeak 1920
- Francispeak 1918
- Arliepeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.