Entry № 2087 · Latin origin

Clare Clare — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KLAIR /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Bright (Saint Clare of Assisi, founder of the Poor Clares)"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "bright (saint clare of assisi, founder of the poor clares)".

Clare is from the Latin clarus ("clear, bright, famous").

Subject of Liliana Cavani's Francis (1989 film).

Bright (Saint Clare of Assisi, founder of the Poor Clares) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Clara
Transliteration
Clara
Pronunciation
/ klɛər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Clare stands.

Clare does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Clares before her.

Real people
Saint Clare of Assisi
Founder of the Poor Clares.
1194 – 1253
Clare Boothe Luce
US Congresswoman, Ambassador.
1903 – 1987
In fiction
Clare
The Time Traveler's Wife.
2003

Names connected to Clare.

The number behind Clare.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Clare reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.