Klara

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Klara is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina. In the Czechia it is the 66th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and Czech, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Klara är ett latinskt namn, bildat till latinets clarus ’klar; berömd’.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 135◐
  • HUHungary1 in 303
  • SISlovenia1 in 482

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

≈593K ●

across 14 countries

#572 ●

of 16M given names

9 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
350 ●

2.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 135 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

ClaraLatin · Portuguese●1.7M records
КлараCyrillic · Russian●171K records
קלרהHebrew · Hebrew●72K records
ᲙლარაGeorgian · Georgian●3.8K records
โขลาThai · Thai●117 records
ΚλαραGreek · Greek●46 records
കൊലMalayalam · Malayalam●0 records
కోలTelugu · Telugu●0 records
칼라Hangul · Korean●0 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Clara in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 10 more, Клара in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine and 1 more, Kali in IN India, ID Indonesia, MY Malaysia and קלרה in IL Israel.

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●

recorded in Swedish

Klara är ett latinskt namn, bildat till latinets clarus ’klar; berömd’. Clare är en engelsk form, Claire en fransk och Chiara (→ Kiara) en italiensk. Namnet har varit ett av de populäraste flicknamnen under flera decennier men är nu på nedgång. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 12 augusti, till minne av Sankta Clara av Assisi (död 1253).

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Klara is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#231619,657378K rec.—2.3KClara141
IN India—405,514774K rec.—13KKali184
MX Mexico#258186,110166K rec.—615Clara186
RU Russia#254140,31733K rec.—#113Клара131
PE Peru#251127,658105K rec.——Clara65
BR Brazil#302126,36284K rec.1 in 1.7K126KClara193
US United States—109,086183K rec.1 in 3K109KClara350
FR France—100,530△360 rec.1 in 675101K—5
CZ Czechia#6679,200△2.1K rec.1 in 13579KKlara125
VE Venezuela#38764,96830K rec.——Clara58
CL Chile#23561,4433.4K rec.—188Clara86
ES Spain#16450,09356K rec.1 in 99850KClara192

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

Languages●

  • Hungarian439K37%
  • Czech358K31%
  • Polish165K14%
  • German43K4%
  • Croatian38K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian438,64237%
Czech358,18431%
Polish164,90214%
German43,0104%
Croatian37,9213%

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◐

Klara is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name53K records spelled Klara5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Austria, Netherlands, United States

    Languages: German, Dutch, Western Frisian

    Also written Klára, Kla-Ra

  • English given name31K records spelled Klara11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Czechia, Hungary, Australia

    Languages: English, Czech, Hungarian

    Also written Klára

  • Danish given name25K records spelled Klara9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Swedish

    Also written Klára, Klāra

  • Portuguese given name24K records spelled Klara4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Spain, Mexico

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian

    Also written Klára

  • Finnish given name3.6K records spelled Klara3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Klára

  • Albanian given name3.0K records spelled Klara6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Italy, United States, Canada

    Also written Klara️, Klárà, Klàra, Klára, Klãrã

  • a separate given name1.9K records spelled Klara6 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Klára, Klāra, Klàra, Klārā, Klära

39 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●

Klara 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 Polish, Clara, Clare

    as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)

  • German, Dutch, Russian, Polish, and Scandinavian form of CLARA . Pet form: Dutch: Klaartje .

    as a word

  • In non, indefinite accusative/genitive plural of karl

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

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, simple past of klare (Verb 1)

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

  • In Esperanto, clear

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

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●

050100150200190019502000152 · 2019

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Klara in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1884–2025
Yearrecords
18845
19127
19146
19159
19168
19179
191910
19207
192110
19226
19238
19249
19257
19265
19275
19287
19318
19325
19335
19356
19475
19488
19497
19525
19546
19605
19636
19667
19676
19696
19737
19747
19776
19785
19797
19807
19817
19826
198313
198410
198515
198612
19879
198818
198912
199019
199124
199216
199321
199424
199525
199624
199722
199836
199935
200044
200147
200254
200359
200463
200569
200667
200780
200888
200976
201096
2011104
2012101
2013115
2014112
2015113
2016127
2017113
2018130
2019152
2020114
2021106
2022136
2023110
2024109
2025112

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 81 years between 1884–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

100012001400160018002000Clare of Assisi, b. 1194Klara Hitler, b. 1860Klara Zamenhof, b. 1863Clara Immerwahr, b. 1870Klara Rumyanova, b. 1929Klara Geywitz, b. 1976Clara-Jumi Kang, b. 1987Klara Deutschmann, b. 1989Amanda Tenfjord, b. 1997Klara Bühl, b. 2000

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 89 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Klara
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—33K#121
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202633K#121
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—17K#256
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202010K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—7K#525
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20216.6K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20214.8K#213
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—4.4K#116
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20254.4K#58
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20244.2K#45
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20203.9K#4,668
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—2.9K#201

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 732 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Klara?
We estimate roughly 593 thousand people bear Klara (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Klara have the most bearers?
Klara is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled clara.
Where is Klara most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Klara is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 135 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is Klara compared with other names?
In Argentina, Klara is the 231st most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Klara a male or female name?
Klara 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 Klara mean?
Recorded meaning: Klara är ett latinskt namn, bildat till latinets clarus ’klar; berömd’.
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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, “Klara” — the 231st most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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