Clara



Gender:
Origin: Latin
674 famous people named Clara found on Wikipedia.
280077 female, 1011 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 103-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 7-th in year 1885
Used in: Catalan, Danish, English, German, Italian, Late-Roman, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish

Meanings

A female given name: from a Latin word meaning “clear, bright.”.


Clara or Klara, is a female given name. It is the feminine form of the Late Latin name Clarus which meant "clear, bright, famous". Various early male Christian saints were named Clarus; the feminine form became popular after the 13th-century Saint Clare of Assisi (called Chiara in Italian), one of the followers of Saint Francis, who renounced her privileged background and founded the order of Poor Clares.
Clare was the main English form of the name used in the Middle Ages, but the Latin spelling Clara became more popular in the 19th century.


Fem. personal name, from Latin Clara, from fem. of clarus "bright, shining, clear" (see clear (adj.) and compare Claire). Derivatives include Clarisse, Clarice, Clarabel, Claribel. The native form Clare was common in medieval England, perhaps owing to the popularity of St. Clare of Assisi.


From the feminine form of the Latin adjective clarus, means: bright, clear, famous.

Famous People: 674 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Clara Oswald Fictional character from Doctor Who
2 Clara Rockmore 1911 American musician
3 Clara Barton 1821 American Civil War nurse
4 Clara Bow 1905 American actress
5 Clara Paget 1988 British actress
6 Clara Petacci 1912 Mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini
7 Clara Schumann 1819 German musician and composer
8 Clara Lee 1986 South Korean actress
9 Clara Blandick 1880 Actress from the United States
10 Clara Lago 1990 Spanish actress
11 Clara Mamet 1994 American actress
12 Clara Zetkin 1857 German politician
13 Clara Gaymard 1960 French businessperson
14 Clara Morgane 1981 French pornographic actress and singer
15 Clara Clemens 1874 Second daughter of Mark Twain; opera singer
16 Clara Hughes 1972 Canadian speed skater and racing cyclist
17 Clara Peller 1902 Character actress
18 María Clara
19 Clara Germana Cele South AFrican woman possessed by demons
20 Clara Amfo 1984 British radio personality, DJ
21 Clara Immerwahr 1870 German chemist
22 Clara Muhammad 1899 Wife of Wlijah Muhammad
23 Clara Harris 1834 Socialite
24 Clara Moroni 1964 Italian musician
25 Clara Hagman 1991 Swedish singer
26 Clara Cleymans 1989 Belgian actress
27 Clara Ward 1924 American singer
28 Clara Bryant 1985 Actress
29 Clara Ward, Princesse de Caraman-Chimay 1873 American performer and Belgian princess
30 Clara Shih 1982 American businesswoman
31 Clara Peeters 1594 Painter from the Southern Netherlands
32 Clara Tiezzi 1999 Brazilian actress
33 Clara Chung 1987 American musician
34 Clara Sumarwati
35 Clara Ponsot 1989 French actress
36 Clara Brown 1800 American former slave, community leader, philanthropist
37 Clara Luper 1923 African American activist
38 Clara Segura 1974
39 Clara Haskil 1895 Romanian musician
40 Clara Henry 1994
41 Clara Malraux 1897 French writer
42 Clara Jeffery 1967 American journalist
43 Clara Seger Fictional character on the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders
44 Clara Lemlich 1886 Union organizer, suffragist, activist
45 Clara Butt 1872 British singer
46 Clara G 1979 Romanian pornographic actress
47 Sônia Clara 1949 Brazilian actress
48 Clara Kimball Young 1890 American actress and film producer
49 Clara de Sousa 1967 Portuguese journalist
50 Clara Brett Martin 1874 Canadian lawyer
51 Clara Campoamor 1888 Spanish politician
52 Clara Khoury 1976 Israeli Arab actress
53 Clara Elvira Ospina 1971
54 Clara Luzia 1978 Austrian composer
55 Clara Maass 1876 American nurse
56 Clara McMillen 1898 American scientist
57 Clara Alvarado 1989
58 Clara Nunes 1943 Singer
59 Clara Cannucciari 1915 American cook
60 Clara Rojas 1964 Colombian politician
61 Clara Helena Enciso 1951
62 Clara Driscoll 1881 Philanthropist, politician, helped save the Alamo
63 Clara Benin 1994
64 Clara Bellar 1972 Actress, film director, screenwriter, film producer
65 Clara Alonso 1987 Spanish model
66 Clara Hale 1905 American humanitarian
67 Clara Calamai 1909 Italian actress
68 Clara Klabunde 1906 German lawyer and judge (1906-1994)
69 Clara Bloodgood 1870 Actress
70 Clara Reeve 1729 Novelist
71 Clara Serina 1949 Brazilian singer
72 Clara Marangoni 1915 Italian gymnast
73 Clara Westhoff 1878 German sculptor
74 Clara Dolny 1990 German actress
75 Clara Guerrero 1982 Colombian ten-pin bowler
76 Clara Smith 1894 American classic female blues singer
77 Clara Montes 1968 Spanish singer
78 Clara Charf
79 Clara Leach Adams-Ender 1939 American military officer
80 Clara Bingham 1963
81 Clara Wagner 1891
82 Clara Szczaranski 1948
83 Clara Tahoces
84 Clara Hill German singer
85 Clara S. Foltz 1849 United States women's rights activist
86 Clara Furse 1957 British businesswoman
87 Clara López Obregón 1950 Colombian politician
88 Clara Rugaard-Larsen 1998 Danish actress
89 Clara Ponty 2000 French musician
90 Clara Belle Williams 1885 First African-American graduate of New Mexico State University
91 Clara Salaman 1967 English actrress
92 Clara Serra Sánchez 1982
93 Clara Law 1957 Australian film director
94 Clara Florinda Gerst 1987 German actress
95 Maria Clara 1923
96 Clara Ant 1948 Brazilian architect and activist
97 Max Clara 1899 Austrian scientist
98 Clara Lidström 1986
99 Clara Ledesma 1924 Painter
100 Clara Weaver Parrish 1861 Artist
101 Clara Green Carl American poisoner
102 Clara Gregory Baer 1863 American sports pioneer
103 Clara Thompson 1893 American psychoanalyst
104 Patrizia De Clara 1940 Italian actress
105 Clara Gonzaga 1464 Italian noble
106 Clara Sinta 1966
107 Clara Fraser 1923 American activist
108 Clara Usón 1961
109 Clara Mariño 1957 Argentinian journalist
110 Clara Cook 1921 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
111 Clara Woltering 1983 German handball goalkeeper
112 Clara Horton 1904 Actress
113 Clara Cernat 1972 Romanian violinist
114 Clara Beranger 1886 American screenwriter of the silent film era
115 Abraham a Sancta Clara 1644 Austrian writer
116 Clara Williams 1888 Actress
117 Clara Longworth de Chambrun 1873 American author and patron of the arts
118 Clara Claiborne Park 1923 Author about autism experiences
119 Clara Elisabeth von Platen 1648 German noblewoman, mistress of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover
120 Clara Edwards 1880 Composer
121 Clara Halter 1942 French sculptor
122 Clara Fisher 1811 British actress
123 Clara Novello Davies 1861 Welsh singer, teacher and conductor
124 Clara Chou 1953 Taiwanese politician
125 Clara Gallini 1931 Italian anthropologist and ethnologist
126 Didia Clara 0153 Daughter of Roman Emperor
127 Clara van Wel 1997 New Zealand singer-songwriter
128 Clara Obligado 1950 Argentinian writer
129 Clara Grunwald 1877 German teacher
130 Clara Sherman 1914 Navajo artist
131 Clara Ng 1973 Writer
132 Clara Martínez de Careaga 1959 Spanish magistrate
133 Clara Bahamondes 1996 Danish actress
134 Clara Furey 1983 Canadian actress
135 Clara Franzini-Armstrong 1938 Microscopist
136 Clara Breed 1906 American librarian
137 Clara Eggink 1906 Dutch poet (1906-1991)
138 Clara C. Frye 1872 American nurse
139 Clara Maffei 1814 Italian salon holder
140 Clara Schöne 1993 German association football player
141 Clara Sipprell 1885 Canadian photographer
142 Clara Louise Kellogg 1842 United States opera singer
143 Clara von Arnim 1909 German writer (1909-2009)
144 Clara Stanton Jones 1913 Librarian
145 Clara Weisenborn 1907 American politician
146 Clara Porset 1895 Cuban interior designer and architect (1895-1981)
147 Clara Ingram Judson 1879 American children's writer, biographies
148 Clara Bewick Colby
149 Clara Antoinette McCarty Wilt 1858 American academic
150 Clara Janés 1940 Spanish translator
151 Clara T. Bracy 1848 English actress
152 Clara Novello 1818 English soprano singer
153 Clara Pontoppidan 1883 Danish actress, in Swedish and Danish silent films
154 Jaime Clara 1965 Uruguayan writer and journalist
155 Clara Royer 1981 French writer and screenwriter
156 Clara Elsene Peck 1883 Illustrator
157 Clara Southern 1861 Australian artist
158 Clara Endicott Sears 1863 Author, preservationist and philanthropist
159 Clara G. McMillan 1894 American politician
160 Clara Raven 1909 American physician
161 Clara Funes de Roca 1849
162 Clara Blume 2000 Austrian singer
163 Clara Elizabeth Chan Lee 1886 American activist
164 Clara Blinn 1847 American settler
165 Clara Collet 1860 British academic
166 Clara Garcia 1971 Brazilian actress
167 Clara 1992 German pop singer (born 1992)
168 Clara Isabel Francia 1940 Spanish journalist and television presenter
169 Clara Morris 1849 American actress
170 Clara González 1900 Panamanian activist
171 Clara Rosenthal 1863 German housewife
172 Clara Gansard 1930 French actress
173 Clara H. Hasse 1880 American botanist
174 Clara (Cuqui) Nicola 1926 Cuban guitarist and classical guitarist
175 Clara de Hirsch 1833 Baroness de Hirsch (1833–1899), philanthropist
176 Clara LaMore 1926 American swimmer, Olympic athlete
177 Clara Bell 1834 English translator
178 Clara Herrmann 1985 German politician
179 Clara 3000 1989
180 Clara Schønfeld 1856 Danish actress
181 Clara Moreno 1971
182 Clara Dobokai
183 Clara Perez Venezuelan actress
184 Clara D. Bloomfield 1942 American physician
185 Clara Adams 1884 Early Female plane passenger
186 Clara Jaione 1927 Italian singer
187 Clara Kathleen Rogers 1844 American composer
188 Clara Swain 1834 American physician and missionary
189 Clara Colosimo 1922 Italian actress
190 Clara Birnberg 1894 British artist
191 Clara H. Scott 1841 Hymnwriter
192 Aemilia Clara
193 Clara de la Rocha Mexican revolutionary
194 Clara Tice 1888 American avant-garde illustrator and artist
195 Clara West 1981 German politician
196 Clara Thalmann 1908 Swiss anarchist
197 Clara Stern 1877 German psychologist and writer (1877-1948)
198 Clara Droetto 1946 Italian actress
199 Clara Campi 1986 Italian actress
200 Clara Nordström 1886 German writer and translator