Claire

[Sophronia]

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

Lol at Breakfast Club, I always remember that. I'm a Clare from the 70's and there was four of us in a class of 24. 5 Siobhans.

What did they say about it in the Breakfast Club?

I think they said it was a "fat girl name" iirc. Lovely.

Clare/Claire is lovely. Pretty and understated. Yes there were lots in the 70s (for a reason?) But it would now unique!

Thanks Bernard

Ps Emma and Sarah are also lovely names. My mum had an Auntie Sarah and her grandmother was Emma. My Dad had an Auntie Clare. They were Victorian/turn of century kids. The 70s Emma/Clare/Sarahs that are so maligned on this thread will have probably been named after beloved older relatives...

I have no issue with 'plain' names, Emma/Sarah/Anna are lovely. Claire/Clare is a bit flat/too plain and without any of the charm that makes 'plain' names work, in my opinion.*

I wouldn't be worried about it being dated, as such, but I think there are much nicer names out there.

I've always found it a very pretty name. I went to school in the 70s and 80s and there was the odd one or two, but never lots of them as there were Carolines, so I'm not influenced by that. Having said that i like Caroline too!

Claire has always seemed quite an exotic name to me - because I always associate it with Claire Clairmont, the sister of Mary Shelley, the Frankenstein author, and part of that wild, adventurous group with the poets Shelley, Byron and the rest of them. She changed her name from Clara to Claire.

Yes, I agree that Caroline is a nice name.