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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Clair

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

12,041

peak year 1923

More common than

98%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1923
356 births
Best rank
#288
in 1913
First recorded
1880
#536 that year
Last recorded
2020
no later published record
Average birth year
1931
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
119 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1923356#295Peak
  2. 1919339#292
  3. 1920339#311
  4. 1926337#308
  5. 1924327#320

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #288 in 1913 · peak births 356 in 1923

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 74% boys■ 26% girls

12,041 boys · 4,310 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Clair has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.