Clare
One of the rarest names on the register: only 35 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it this century. From Latin, it means "bright, clear".
Clare Pronunciation
Clare is pronounced TSLAH-re (/ˈt͡slarɛ/).
What Clare means
Where Clare comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Clare comes from the Latin clarus, which meant bright or clear. The same root gives English its everyday words clear and clarity, so the name and the vocabulary share one grandparent. That link is easy to hear. A person named Clare wears an adjective that once described light and unclouded water.
The best known bearer is Saint Clare of Assisi, who lived from 1194 to 1253 and founded the order later called the Poor Clares. Through her the name spread across Catholic Europe. English families kept the spelling Clare. The old sense traveled with it.
On a Polish class register, Clare reads as foreign, an English guest among the Klaras. The sense still stays legible: bright, clear.
How many people are named Clare
1 in 644110 women in Poland is named Clare. 35 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6695 among female names.
Clare as a middle name
Clare is a first name for 35 women in Poland and a middle name for another 56, a 38/62 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 912th, between Sabine (57) and Constance (56).
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#910 Phuong57
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#911 Sabine57
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#912 Clare56
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#913 Constance56
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#914 Freya56