Claire (given name)

Claire or Clair / ˈkl ɛər/ is a given name of Latin origin via French; the name could mean "clear" or "famous".[1 ] 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 spelt Claire.

Women with the given name Clair or Claire

 * Princess Claire of Belgium (born 1974)
 * Claire Boucher (born 1988), Canadian musician
 * 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
 * Claire Summers, Welsh news presenter
 * Claire de Boer (actress), Dutch actress

Fictional characters

 * Clair in the Pokémon universe
 * Claire Bennet in the TV series Heroes
 * Claire Farron, aka Lightning, protagonist in the video game Final Fantasy XIII
 * Claire Fisher in the TV series Six Feet Under
 * Claire Foley in the Professor Layton universe
 * Claire Fraser in the novel Outlander and its sequels
 * Clair Huxtable in the TV series The Cosby Show
 * Claire Kyle in the TV series My Wife and Kids
 * Claire Littleton in the TV series Lost
 * Claire Lyons in the novel series The Clique
 * Claire Redfield in the video game series Resident Evil
 * Claire Mitchell in the Power Rangers Fanfiction series.