What is the meaning of the name Clara?

The meaning of the name Clara is "bright, famous". The origin of the name is "Latin". The name Clara is mostly used as a girls name.

Right pronunciation of Clara

\c-la-ra\

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Clara is a very popular first name for girls (#144) and also really popular as a last name (#23938). Users of our site ranked the name with a 5.0 (1 vote(s)). Like or dislike the name by ranking this girls name above or write a comment on the name Clara.

How popular is the name Clara?

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The year 1918 was for Clara a very good year. In that year there were 5689 births with the name Clara. Find out if Clara is in the top 100 girls names 1918 or check all top 100 names for any State in any year!

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