Clare


Gender:
Origin: Latin
363 famous people named Clare found on Wikipedia.
29367 female, 3052 male in US.
Most recent ranking: 759-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 320-th in year 1884
Used in: English

Meanings

Clare is a given name, the Medieval English form of Clara. The related name Clair was traditionally considered male, especially when spelled without an 'e', but Clare and Claire are usually female.
It is very often associated with the Irish County Clare. That name was derived from the Irish word ('Clár') given to a small bridge that crossed the River Fergus near the town of Ennis in what is now County Clare.

Cognate of Clara, derived from the Latin clarus, means: bright, clear, famous.

Famous People: 363 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Clare Bowen 1984 Australian actress and singer
2 Cassandra Clare 1973 American author
3 Alex Clare 1985 British singer-songwriter
4 Clare Balding 1971 British TV presenter, journalist and amateur jockey
5 Clare Grant 1979 American actress
6 Dustin Clare 1982 Australian actor
7 Clare of Assisi 1193 Italian saint
8 Clare Grogan 1962 British actress
9 Clare Smyth 1978 Chef
10 Clare Torry 1947 British singer
11 Clare Hollingworth 1911 British journalist
12 Clare Foley 2001 American actress
13 Clare Burt Actress
14 Patti Clare 1958 British actress
15 Clare Holman 1964 English actress
16 Clare Boothe Luce 1903 American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and anti-Communist activist
17 Clare Kramer 1974 Actress
18 Clare Calbraith 1974 English actress
19 Clare Dunn
20 Clare Carey 1967 American actress
21 Clare Short 1946 British politician
22 Clare Devine
23 Clare Tomlinson 1968 British news reporter
24 Clare Buckfield 1976 English actress
25 Clare Teal 1973 British musician
26 Clare Rewcastle Brown 1960 British investigative journalist
27 Clare Thomas 1989 Clare is best known for playing Ingrid Dracula in the CBBC children's television show Young Dracula
28 Clare Wren 1962 American actress
29 Clare McLaren-Throckmorton 1935 British lawyer
30 Clare Bowditch 1975 Australian singer
31 Clare Maguire 1987 Singer
32 Clare Nasir 1970 British meteorologist
33 Clare Fischer 1928 American keyboardist, composer, arranger, and bandleader
34 Clare Daly 1968 Irish politician
35 Clare Foster 1982 West End actress, currently starring in Crazy For You at the Novello Theatre
36 Elizabeth de Clare 1295 Engliah heiress
37 Clare Wille 1973 Actress
38 Eleanor de Clare 1292 Welsh noble
39 Margaret de Clare 1292 English noble
40 Clare W. Graves 1914 American psychologist
41 Clare Bates
42 Diane Clare 1938 British actress
43 Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare 1094 Norman nobleman
44 Jason Clare 1972 Australian politician
45 Anthony Clare 1942 Professor of Psychiatry
46 Clare Francis 1946 British writer and former yachtswoman
47 Clare Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven 1960 British journalist and aristocrat
48 Clare Frisby 1966 British newsreader
49 Jillian Clare 1992 American child actress and singer
50 Mary Clare 1894 Actress
51 Clare Leighton 1898 American artist
52 Clare of Montefalco 1268 Augustinian nun and abbess
53 Clare Stone 1992 Canadian actress
54 Clare Polkinghorne 1989 Association football player
55 Clare McDonnell 1967 British DJ
56 Clare O'Neil 1980 Australian politician
57 Clare Peploe 1942 Tanzanian British screenwriter and film director
58 Clare Rojas 1976 American artist
59 Clare Frewen Sheridan 1885 British artist
60 Clare Cathcart 1965 Northern Irish actress
61 Clare Gerada 1959 Physician
62 Clare Eames 1894 Theatre actor
63 Clare Montgomery 1958 British barrister
64 Clare Perkins British actress
65 Clare Bronfman 1979 American philanthropist
66 Clare Marx British surgeon
67 Clare Selgin Wolfowitz 1945 American anthropologist
68 Clare Connor 1976 Cricket player of England.
69 Sean Clare 1996
70 Clare Mackintosh
71 Clare Mulley 1969 Biographer
72 Horatio Clare 1973 British journalist
73 Clare Clifford British actress
74 Daryl Clare 1978 Professional footballer
75 Clare Morpurgo British activist
76 Clare Grundman 1913 American composer and arranger
77 Ada Clare 1834 American actress, writer, and feminist
78 Clare Vanderpool 1965 American children's book author
79 Clare Kenny British musician
80 Clare Wilkie 1974 British actress
81 Clare Dunne 1937 Australian actress and author
82 John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare 1792 British noble
83 Alys Clare 1944 British author
84 Clare Palmer 1967 US-based philosopher, theologian and scholar of environmental- and religious studies
85 Clare Moody 1965 British politician
86 Clare Stevenson 1903 Director WAAAF, Founder President Carers NSW
87 Clare Greet 1871 Actress
88 Clare Drake 1928 Canadian ice hockey coach
89 Clare Asquith 1951 British academic and writer
90 Clare Adamson 1967 Politician
91 Clare Dennis 1916 Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medallist
92 Clare Hammond 1985
93 Clare Grey 2000 British chemist and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge
94 Clare Boylan 1948 Irish writer
95 John FitzGibbon, 1st Earl of Clare 1748 Irish politician
96 Clare Oliver 1981 Australian activist
97 Clare Bailey 1970 Politician from Northern Ireland
98 Clare Kelly 1922 Actress
99 Clare Moriarty British civil servant; Permanent Secretary of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
100 Clare Wood 1968 British tennis player
101 Clare Taylor 1965 Cricketer and footballer
102 Clare Wright 1969 Australian historian and author
103 Clare Curran 1960 New Zealand politician
104 Clare Hoffman 1875 American politicians
105 Alan Clare 1921 British musician
106 Clare Rustad 1983 Association footballer
107 Clare Kilner Film director
108 Clare Moore Australian musician
109 Clare Briggs 1875 Cartoonist
110 Clare Sewell Read 1826 British agriculturist and Conservative politician
111 Clare Morrall 1952 British writer
112 Clare Turlay Newberry 1903 American children's illustrator and writer
113 Clare Atwood 1866 British painter
114 Clare McMeniman 1985 Australian netball player
115 Sidney Clare 1892 American songwriter
116 Clare Tickell 1958 Chief Executive of the Hanover Housing Association
117 Clare Winger Harris 1891 American writer
118 Roy Clare 1950 Royal Navy admiral
119 Kenny Clare 1929 British musician
120 Baldwin of Clare French noble
121 Clare Lockhart Director
122 Clare Bell 1952 American writer
123 Clare Thomson
124 Charles O'Brien, 6th Viscount Clare 1699 Jacobite noble
125 Walter de Clare 1100 Baron of Chepstow
126 John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare 1595 English politician and Earl
127 Clare O'Leary 1972 Irish mountain climber
128 John Holles, 1st Earl of Clare 1564 English politician and Earl
129 George Clare 1920 Writer
130 Clare Christian 1945 Manx politician
131 Clare Haughey Scottish politician
132 Clare Sandars 1934 English actress
133 Clare Nott 1986 Australian wheelchair basketball player
134 Amice de Clare British noble
135 Clare Potter 1903 American fashion designer
136 Clare Douglas 2000 British film editor
137 Clare Niederpruem 2000 American film actor
138 Robert Clare 1983 English footballer
139 Clare Vivier Fashion designer
140 Rohese de Clare Medieval noblewoman
141 Clare B. Dunkle 1964 American writer
142 Matt Clare 1988 American soccer player
143 Clare Winnicott 1906 Winnicott [née Britton], (Elsie) (1906–1984), social worker and psychoanalyst
144 Clare Lawrence Moody 1975 British actress
145 Clare Nancy Russell 1944 Scottish noble
146 Clare E. Connors 1974
147 Craig Clare 1984 New Zealand rugby union player
148 Jonathan Clare 1986 English cricketer
149 Charles Jacobs 1886 American pole vaulter
150 Ina Clare 1932 Actress
151 Clare Cunningham 1977 British paratriathlete
152 Clare Rendlesham British fashion editor and boutique manager
153 Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare English politician
154 Charles O'Brien, 5th Viscount Clare 1673 Jacobite peer
155 Daniel O'Brien, 3rd Viscount Clare Irish army officer
156 Clare Shine 1995 Irish association football player
157 Clare Darcy 1914 American writer
158 Clare Westcott 1924 Canadian political consultant
159 Clare Venables 1943 English theatre director
160 Clare Wigfall 1976 British writer
161 George William Burdett Clare 1889 Recipient of the Victoria Cross
162 Tommy Clare 1865 Professional footballer and manager
163 Clare Magee 1899 American politician
164 Clare Woods 1972
165 Clare Higgins American politician
166 Charles O'Brien, 7th Viscount Clare 1757 Jacobite noble
167 Daniel O'Brien, 1st Viscount Clare 1577 Irish politician
168 Clare Burson Musician
169 Clare Pollard 1978 British poet
170 Clare Strand 1973
171 Clare Smales 1975 British journalist
172 Osbert of Clare Abbot of Westminster and hagiographer
173 Clare Daniels 1974 English international rugby union referee
174 Clare Bradley Television gardener
175 Clare Lizzimore
176 Leanne Clare Australian judge
177 Clare Cavanagh 1956 American literary critic
178 Clare Tennant 1896
179 Clare of Rimini 1282 Italian saint
180 Clare Chambers 1966 British writer
181 Daniel O'Brien, 4th Viscount Clare
182 Clare Henry
183 Madelyn Clare 1894 Early 20th century American actor
184 Clare Mallory 1913 New Zealand children's writer (pseudonym)
185 Clare Stewart Festival director
186 Clare Benedict 1870 American writer
187 Clare Solomon British activist
188 Clare Wilkinson English mezzo-soprano
189 Clare Ford 1828 British diplomat
190 John Clare 1955 English author, journalist and Chief Executive
191 Connor O'Brien, 2nd Viscount Clare 1605
192 Clare Egan 1987 Biathlete
193 Thomas Clare English Benedictine monk and university Chancellor
194 Clare Loveday 1967 South African composer
195 Tiffany Clare Canadian writer
196 Clare Brunson 1989 Acrobatic gymnast
197 Charlie Clare
198 Chapman James Clare 1853 Australian Navy officer
199 Bogo de Clare 1248 English noble
200 Clare Booth 1964 British former alpine skier