Klara
Klara is a girl's name that peaked in 2019, when it was the 1,452nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,796th. About 2,900 Klaras are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Klara
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,087
- Estimated living today
- 2,900
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2019
- Best rank
- 1,452nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,796th
- First recorded
- 1884
How old the living Klaras are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,087 babies given the name since 1884, about 2,900 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 30 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Klaras
- Klara Hitler (1860–1907)mother of Adolf Hitler mi vrg
- Klára Koukalová (born 1982)Czech tennis player
- Klara Zamenhof (1863–1924)Polish esperantist
- Klara Bühl (born 2000)German association football player
- Klára Dobrev (born 1972)Hungarian politician, economist, jurist
- Klara Rumyanova (1929–2004)Soviet and Russian actress and singer
- Klara Luchko (1925–2005)Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian actress
- Klara Dan von Neumann (1911–1963)Hungarian computer scientist
People named Klara with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Klara is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Klara is most concentrated in Illinois (3.0×), Washington (2.7×), California (2.1×), New York (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2019
The most popular girls’ names the year Klara peaked:
Klara elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland girls | Klara +1 spelling | 27,890 birth registrations | 21st |
| Austria girls | Klara | 3,013 | 36th |
| France girls | Klara | 2,145 | 350th |
| Norway girls | Klara | 1,904 | 54th |
| England and Wales girls | Klara | 1,506 | 358th |
| Belgium girls | Klara | 789 | 225th |
| Switzerland girls | Klara | 590 | 166th |
| Italy girls | Klara | 562 | — |
| Ireland girls | Klara | 315 | 178th |
| Scotland girls | Klara | 132 | 228th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Klara | 44 | 213th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Klara: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Klara | 470 | 0.038% | 151st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Klara | 111 | 0.026% | 221st |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Klara | 9 | 0.014% | 106th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Klara is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.07% of children were given it – 25 of them.
Klara: rank by region
In 2025, Klara was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Klara | 584 | 8 |
In 2025, Klara was given 2 times or more in 17 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Klara | 15 | 163 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Klara | 12 | 129 |
| Lubelskie | Klara | 16 | 109 |
| Lubuskie | Klara | 17 | 47 |
| Łódzkie | Klara | 20 | 126 |
| Małopolskie | Klara | 17 | 225 |
| Mazowieckie | Klara | 16 | 416 |
| Opolskie | Klara | 11 | 61 |
| Podkarpackie | Klara | 10 | 143 |
| Podlaskie | Klara | 19 | 64 |
| Pomorskie | Klara | 11 | 182 |
| Śląskie | Klara | 14 | 232 |
| Śląskie | Klára | 255 | 2 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Klara | 14 | 70 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Klara | 16 | 75 |
| Wielkopolskie | Klara | 15 | 221 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Klara | 15 | 89 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Klara appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (326th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Klara by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 428 | 44th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Klara among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Klara +1 spelling | 329 | 429 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Klara lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 322 women called Klara were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gipuzkoa | Klara | 25 | 0.067 | 1,016 |
| Balears, Illes | Klara | 23 | 0.037 | 1,613 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Klara | 18 | 0.032 | 2,136 |
| Palmas, Las | Klara | 14 | 0.024 | 2,929 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Klara | 7 | 0.022 | 2,111 |
| Bizkaia | Klara | 12 | 0.020 | 2,082 |
Listed in 17 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 35 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Klara against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.