Clare

Clare is the 7,759th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,107 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 72,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,107
Rank: 7,759th
How common: 1 in 72,800
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Clare described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 80.1%
Black, not Hispanic 9.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Clare

Cassandra Clare (born 1973)American author
John Clare (1793–1864)English poet
Dustin Clare (born 1982)Australian actor
Alex Clare (born 1985)British singer-songwriter
Elizabeth de Clare (1295–1360)English heiress

People named Clare with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Clare

Also a first name

Clare has been given to 34,510 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1998. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.