Claire
34
Babies in 2024
-8%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 564
+36%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Claire
Claire peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (564 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 34 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Claire reached its peak in 1996, when 564 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #90 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 34 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 3,119 girls have been officially registered with the name Claire in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 393 girls were registered with the name, starting from 37 in 2014 and ending at 34 in 2024.