Clara
564
Babies in 2024
+22%
10-year change
2017
Peak · 614
+7%
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 Clara
Clara is one of the more popular UK girls' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #84 for girls born in 2024 with 564 babies registered in England & Wales.
Clara reached its peak in 2017, when 614 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #87 for UK girls that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 9,435 girls have been officially registered with the name Clara in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 6,252 girls were registered with the name, starting from 464 in 2014 and ending at 564 in 2024.