Claire

theluckdragon not if you pronounce your "r"s it doesn't.

I know a few Claire's and they all suit their name but I don't actually like them name!

To me it sounds more like a sound you'd make when you don't like something rather than a name. Cleeeehhhhhhh.

I also feel the same about Blair. Bleehhhh.

It just sounds like an unsatisfied noise!

It might regain popularity now due to outlander...I quite like it...

I have a Claire. She's the only one in her school, but I believe there's another one in our town of similar age.

Pemba

I always wondered that too. I think we used to be further apart in terms of tastes during the 80s. I was boooooorn in the USA and my parents thought they'd chosen a really unusual name for me. Moved to the uk and realised it was top 5 or something in popularity. I was never the only one in a class. Unlike pps though, that never bothered me.

I also have an Emma and though it's quite a well known name, I don't think there are that many babies and toddlers around in the uk. We meet the odd one, but it's not like Isabella/ Amelia / Florence/ Olivia / Isla etc. Every time I introduce an American to Emma you can see they think "oh not another one" as it's been so popular over there (number1 I think) for so long. It's only number 60 something here .

Nice to see so many positive comments about my name

I know an 18 month old Claire.

However I'm a 70s baby and I was never the only Claire at school and in most of my jobs! It gets tiresome. My own kids have names outside the top 100 as I didn't want them to suffer the same.

Popular names tend to be those which go well with most surnames.

I say go for it!

I always wondered what exactly they meant by that in The Breakfast Club - Claire being a perfectly normal, and quite common name, especially in the 80s. What were they getting at? Or was it unheard of in the US? (Hard to believe)

Torn between the polar opposite associations of Clair de Lune and Breakfast Club film 'CLAIRE?!!'

I quite like it actually. It's safe but looks pretty written down.

It was still big in Ireland in the 80s. I was born in 1987 and there were loads of clares/Claires in my school. Other popular names were Sarah, Jennifer, Catherine, Rebecca and Rachel.

I think they're all lovely names and would be unusual now. Better than an "unusual" name like Edie or Iris that is actually pretty popular.

I think Claire's a little earlier than that, actually/ Maybe 60's

But yes, it wasn't the most commonplace in my neck of the woods

Joanne was the most common name when I was at Primary in the '70s

Erm, Claire was only in the top 5 baby names in the 1970s

I do know of a little girl called Sarah. I also know a little Rachel. Both popular names in my era (80s baby).

Exactly angelina. It may have spilled over into the 70/80’s but that’s all.

I like it! I think if I met a baby Claire it would be kind of refreshing.

Like @starting though, I have an Emma (sometimes given as an example of a dull name on here), so maybe my taste in girl names is a bit dull! I love unusual boy names though .

Don't know why lots of people posting that Claire is a 70's/80's name because it really isn't. The height of its popularity was for babies born in the 60's. I know many, many Claire's who are in their 50's.

Sarah was also going to be my 9 yr old daughters name but we made it a middle name instead.

Clara sounds like an absolute drip.

my mid 70's DD was going to be Emma or Sarah, ended up Claire. How stereotypical is that?

Still love the name, Claire. So easy and sweet to say; love all the versions we use: Clara, Clara-Belle, Clara-Bow, Claire[-Bear, Clara-Baba. So sweet.

My names Claire (full spelling ). I like it. I was called this so no one could shorten it. I know Claire was popular in the 80’s but most of my friends were called Names beginning with L with various spellings for some such as Lynne, Lindsey, Lorraine, Lauren, Laura, Leeanne etc.
I was the only Claire until I went to university and there was 4 of us in one class.

It was the second most popular baby name in 1974, apparently, and didn't really dip until the mid 1980s (then by the 1990s it had plummeted down)

I was at secondary school in the early 1990s with two Claires and one Clare - ie late 1970s babies

Nancy I wonder if we mean (I do!) that it's a name we know from when it was the 70s - I started secondary in 1975 and there were two Clares in my class (and two Angelas, two Nicolas, a Joanne,a Julie and two Karens).

Arthur and Albert and Elsie and Evie have all come back in fashion from before that time!

I am sure Karen and Julie and Clare and Angela and Joanne will come back in - maybe in about 20 years' time and we can all hold up our hands in horror at the awful names our grandchildren are given

Surprised at people saying it’s a seventies name, I was born in 75 & only know 1 that’s around my age ( there were 6 Emma’s in my class at school) my mum is a Claire & she was born mid 50s

Eclair is also E-clur

Sadly, here in the north west, it is mainly pronounced Clur.

I loves an Eclair

I like it. I don't like Clara but I like Clarissa shortened to Clare not Clarrie.