Claira is a first name for girls.
Claira is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,553 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,552 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Claira.
In fact, the name Claira did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Claira seemed to be more popular than ever in 2014. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,380, 149 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Claira, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Claira was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Claira a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #1,747 - with a total of 102 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
You may not know anyone named Claira, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 29 states are home to women and girls named Claira. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Claira living in one state or another. If your name is Claira and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Utah, which has the most people named Claira relative to the population, you still have to ask 27,162 women and girls their names before you hear Claira as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With six letters, the name Claira is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Claira and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Claira, you can simply say:
Cat
Lion
Apple
Igloo
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Claira
Claira
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
C
L
A
I
R
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
C
L
A
I
R
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Claira sounds like this:
