Chiara

given name · German · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Chiara is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In Italy it is the 46th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and Italian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Italian form of Clara, from Latin clarus 'clear, bright, famous'.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly1 in 357◐
  • ATAustria1 in 1.1K
  • ECEcuador1 in 1.3K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈93K ●

across 12 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
242 ●

192K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 1.3K ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

KiaraLatin · Spanish●336K records
КьяраCyrillic · Russian●470 records
ᲙიარაGeorgian · Georgian●1 records
ΚιάραGreek · Greek●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kiara in AR Argentina, BR Brazil, PE Peru and 7 more, Kjara in AL Albania, SI Slovenia and Кьяра in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Italian form of Clara, from Latin clarus 'clear, bright, famous'.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Chiara is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#396231,64488K rec.—757Kiara59
IT Italy#46141,58310K rec.—1.6KChiara144
PE Peru#58648,10420K rec.—3.4KKiara61
US United States—43,56526K rec.1 in 7.6K44KChiara242
BR Brazil—17,971△1.1K rec.1 in 12K18KKiara87
DE Germany#80114,71213K rec.—1Chiara170
AT Austria#20414,478993 rec.—4.2KChiara86
EC Ecuador#67113,208△69 rec.1 in 1.3K13KKiara24
FR France—10,470△9 rec.1 in 6.5K10K—5
UY Uruguay#1559,8474.1K rec.—9Kiara27
CL Chile#7287,745788 rec.—71Kiara46
AU Australia—5,7274.8K rec.—78Chiara132

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • German160K31%
  • Italian122K24%
  • Spanish71K14%
  • French57K11%
  • English38K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German159,76931%
Italian121,82424%
Spanish70,88714%
French57,34811%
English38,1287%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Chiara is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian given name221K records spelled Chiara8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, France, Spain, United States

    Languages: Italian, French, Catalan

    Also written Chiarà, Čhïãrã, Chïara, Ćhïãrå

  • Spanish given name122K records spelled Chiara7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Italy

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Chïãrã, Çhïärä, Çhïąrã, Chìara, Ćhįarã

  • a separate given name5.3K records spelled Chiara2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

    Also written Chiára

  • Finnish given name1.9K records spelled Chiara3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Italy, Estonia, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Chìarà

  • Czech given name1.8K records spelled Chiara3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Italy, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Chiarã

  • Lao given name943 records spelled Chiara12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Italy

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Kiara, เคียร่า, เคียรา, Kïara, Kíárá

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Chiara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Italian form of Latin clarus « clear, bright ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Italian form of Clara, pronounced ‘keeah-ra’: now also occasionally used in the English-speaking world. The name has always been particularly popular in Italy and has been borne by several Italian saints, notably Clare of Assisi (c.1193- 1253), an associate of Francis of Assisi and founder of the order of nuns known as the Poor Clares. See also Ciara.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Italian, egg white

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, dal latino clarus, «chiara, luminosa»; nome della sorella spirituale di S. Francesco d'Assisi

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

  • In Italian, La sorella spirituale d i S. Francesco d3Assisi. 12 agosto. Xome usato in Toscana anche al maschile. Cogn. Chiarella, -rini, -rotti. I n Piemonte Clara, -rotti ; in Friuli Claricini, d a Clarice o Clarissa, nome che si trova in varie Chansons dc geste.

    as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01002003001960198020002020

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Chiara in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1951–2025
Yearrecords
19515
19599
19629
19639
196413
19658
19668
196710
196810
196914
197011
197118
197220
197315
197423
197547
197642
197742
197833
197933
198032
198135
198238
198333
198444
198544
198647
198749
198855
198950
199062
199153
199272
199359
199474
1995105
199698
1997100
199893
1999122
2000120
2001139
2002203
2003186
2004202
2005183
2006173
2007177
2008155
2009183
2010145
2011134
2012111
2013143
2014131
2015111
2016134
2017137
2018161
2019152
2020166
2021206
2022182
2023202
2024219
2025228

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 66 years between 1951–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1000120014001600180020002200Clare of Assisi, b. 1194Chiara Caselli, b. 1967Chiara Mastroianni, b. 1972Chiara Conti, b. 1973Chiara Zanni, b. 1978Chiara Cainero, b. 1978Chiara Appendino, b. 1984Chiara Ferragni, b. 1987Aviva Mongillo, b. 1998Princess Vittoria of Savoy, b. 2003

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 92 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Chiara
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202410K#177
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.5K#3,666
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20244.2K#99
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—2.4K#1,545
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20222.2K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—2.2K#4,842
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—2K#884
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)20241.6K#18
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.5K#1,628
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.3K#7,746
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—757—
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)2021561—

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 763 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Chiara?
We estimate roughly 93 thousand people bear Chiara (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Chiara have the most bearers?
Chiara is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled kiara.
How common is Chiara compared with other names?
In Argentina, Chiara is the 396th most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Chiara a male or female name?
Chiara is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Chiara mean?
Recorded meaning: Italian form of Clara, from Latin clarus 'clear, bright, famous'.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Chiara” — the 396th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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