Claire (given name)
| 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 |
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Claire or Clair /ˈklɛər/ is a given name of Latin/Viking origin via French; the name could mean "clear" or "famous".[1] The word still means clear in French in its feminine form.[2]
Its popularity in the United Kingdom peaked during the 1970s and 1980s; in 1974 it 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.
Women with the given name Clair or Claire
- Princess Claire of Belgium (born 1974)
- Claire Boucher (born 1988), Canadian musician
- Claire Buffie (born 1986), American photographer
- Claire Chazal (born 1956), French journalist
- Claire Cunningham (born 1977), Scottish choreographer
- Claire Danes (born 1979), American actress
- Claire Etcherelli (born 1934), French novelist
- Claire Forlani (born 1972), English actress
- Claire Harris (born 1937), Canadian poet
- Claire Hodgkins (born 1929), American virtuoso violinist
- Claire Holt (born 1988), Australian actress
- Claire Hooper (born 1976), Australian comedian
- Claire Martin (writer) (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 McCardell (1905-1958), American fashion designer
- Claire McCaskill (born 1953), Senator from Missouri
- Claire Rayner (born 1931), English journalist and agony aunt
- Claire Rutter (born 1976), English soprano
- Claire Skinner (born 1965), British actress
- Claire Summers, Welsh news presenter
- Claire Tiltman (1977-1993), English murder victim
Fictional characters
- Claire Standish in The Breakfast Club (Motion Picture)
- 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 Beauchamp Randall Fraser, the heroine of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series
- 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 Setilan, an antagonist in the video game Magna Carta 2
- Claire Dunphy in the TV series Modern Family
- Claire Underwood in the TV series House of Cards
- Claire Novak in the TV series Supernatural
Men with the given name Clair or Claire
- Lt. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault (1893–1958), American aviator, WW2 commander of the "Flying Tigers"
- Clair Cameron Patterson (1922–1995), American geochemist, developer of the lead-lead isotopic dating method who calculated the age of the Earth as 4.55 billion years
Fictional characters
- Claire Stanfield in the light novel series Baccano!
See also
References
- 1 2 Levinson, Sarena. "Claire", Wiki.Name, accessed August 8, 2010
- ↑ WordReference.com
- ↑ BabyNames.co.uk
- ↑ Behind the Name - Clair
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