Claire

[Sophronia]

I never hear this on babies/children anymore. Is it too dated?

Violet, Olive, Florence etc have come back in fashion that’s all. Claire hasn’t.

Clara yes claire a big NO

Claire! It’s awful. Clare.... bluergh....

It’s the name I always wished I was was called when I was a child. Still fond of it now.

clare/claire is lovely-i like that it means light

much better than some of the quite frankly ridiculous names you see nowadays

I'm a Clare and my daughter is Emma. Love "dull' names me.

As an adult I love my name - hated it as a child though.

@florapearl I only looked at 20 names on this link and I like 14 of them so far.

Maybe I just like these so called "dull" names I don't find them dull though. I think they're beautiful, slightly unique and can work on girls both young and old.

Yep. I think it's just about one of the dullest names I've ever heard. There's nothing interesting about the sound of the name, and it was so done to death in the 70s and 80s.

Claire is lovely although I prefer it spelled Clare. I also like Emma & Sarah, but then I like short, neat, classic names so they are all right up my street.

Horrible.

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

I loves an Eclair

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

Eclair is also E-clur

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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

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

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