Clare
Klara is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
The name Klara comes from the Latin word clarus and translates as meaning “shining”, “bright”, “beautiful”, “clear” or “famous”.
name day
Name days for Klara or Clara are on the following days:
- February 10th : Clare of Rimini
- April 19th : Clare of Catania
- July 22nd : Klara von Sambuca
- July 28th : Clare of Mallorca
- August 11th : St. Clare of Assisi
- August 17th : St. Clare of Montefalco
distribution
The name Klara (Clara) was one of the ten most common girls' names of the year in Germany several times towards the end of the 19th century. Then its popularity slowly declined. From the mid-thirties to the mid-eighties, few girls were named Klara. Since then, there has been an upward trend in the allocation of this name.
variants
- German : Clara, Clarina, Clarinda, Clarinde, Clarisa, Clarissa, Clarisse, Cläre , Claire, Klara, Klarina, Klarinda, Klarinde, Klarine, Klarissa, Klarisse, Kläe, Klärchen, Klara, Kiara
- English : Clara, Clare, Clarice, Claire
- French : Clara, Claire , Clairette
- Frisian : Claartje
- Italian : Chiara , Clara, Clarissa, Claretta
- Dutch : Claar, Claartje, Klaar, Klaartje
- Slovak : Klára, Klárika
- Czech : Klára
- Hungarian : Klára, Klárika (Klarika)
Well-known namesake
Clara
- Clara (* 1986), British actress
- Clara Arnheim (1865–1942), German painter, Nazi victim
- Clara Barton (1821-1912), American philanthropist
- Clara Blandick (1876–1962), American film and stage actress
- Clara Bow (1905–1965), American actress, first "It girl"
- Clara de Buen Richkarday (* 1954), Mexican architect
- Clara Direz (* 1995), French ski racer
- Clara Dolny (* 1990), German actress
- Clara Faisst (1872–1948), German composer, music teacher, pianist and poet
- Clara Fechner (1809–1900), German writer
- Clara Fey (1815–1894), founder of the Catholic Congregation of the Sisters of the Poor Child Jesus
- Clara G. (* 1979), Romanian porn actress
- Clara Gerst (* 1987), German film, television and theater actress
- Clara Grunwald (1877–1943), German teacher and protagonist of Montessori pedagogy
- Clara Haberkamp (* 1989), German jazz musician
- Clara Halouska (* 2000), German actress and stage actress
- Clara Haskil (1895–1960), Romanian pianist
- Clara Hübner (1841–1876), German child actress and stage actress
- Clara Immerwahr (1870–1915), German chemist and women's rights activist
- Clara Kress (1899–1971), German craftsperson and visual artist, graphic artist and painter
- Clara Lago (* 1990), Spanish actress
- Clara Lichtenstein (≈1860–1946), English pianist and music teacher
- Clara Löh (* 1981), mathematician
- Clara Louise (* 1992), German pop singer
- Clara Luzia (* 1978), Austrian singer-songwriter
- Clara Mayer-Himmelträger (* 1970), German ethnologist and curator
- Clara Morgane (* 1981), French former porn actress
- Clara Moto (* 1983), Austrian musician from Styria
- Clara Möller-Coburg (1869–1918), German craftswoman and graphic artist
- Clara Paget (* 1988), British actress and model
- Clara Petacci (1912–1945), lover of Benito Mussolini
- Clara Elisabeth von Platen (1648–1700), mistress of the future Elector Ernst August von Braunschweig-Lüneburg
- Clara Porges (1879–1963), German modern painter
- Clara Ragaz (1874–1957), Swiss women's rights activist and peace activist
- Clara Rockmore (1911–1998), instrumentalist, virtuoso on the theremin
- Clara Rojas (* 1964), Colombian politician and lawyer
- Clara Rosenthal (1863–1941), German patron of the arts
- Clara Rühle (1885–1947), German painter, early protagonist of abstraction and companion of modernity
- Clara Russo (1876–1943), German opera singer
- Clara Schöne (* 1993), German soccer player
- Clara Schuch (1879–1936), German politician (SPD)
- Clara Schulte (1888 - after 1946), German writer
- Clara Schumann (1819–1896), German pianist and composer
- Clara Stern (1877–1948), German developmental psychologist
- Clara von Sydow (1854–1928), German writer
- Clara Tott (≈1440 – ≈1520), wife of the Palatinate Elector Friedrich I.
- Clara Vespermann (1799–1827), German singer (soprano)
- Clara Viebig (1860–1952), German writer
- Clara Vogedes (1892–1983), German painter
- Clara Ward (1924–1973), American gospel singer, composer and arranger
- Clara Ward, Princesse de Caraman-Chimay (1873–1916), celebrity of the Belle Époque
- Clara Westhoff (1878–1954), German sculptor and painter
- Clara Woltering (* 1983), German handball player
- Clara Zetkin (1857–1933), German politician and women's rights activist
Clare
Single name
- Clare of Assisi (1193 / 94–1253), founder of the Order of the Poor Clares
- Clare of Montefalco (1268–1308), virgin, Augustinian and mystic
- Klara von Montfort (* before 1412, † 1449), abbess of the free worldly women's monastery in Buchau
First name
- Klara Barlow (1928–2008), American opera singer
- Klara Behrend (1877 - after 1921), German writer
- Klara Blum (1904–1971), German-speaking Jewish, Austrian, Soviet and Chinese writer
- Klara Borter (1888–1948), Swiss painter and graphic artist
- Klara Bühl (* 2000), German soccer player
- Klara Burghardt (* 1954), Hungarian poet who writes in German
- Klara Butting (* 1959), German Protestant theologian, university teacher and author
- Klara Caro (1886–1979), German women's rights activist
- Klara Deutschmann (* 1989), German actress
- Klara Dworznik (1910–1991), German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Klara Marie Faßbinder (1890–1974), activist of the German women's and peace movement
- Klara Fricke (1871–1951), German activist in the women's movement and child welfare
- Klara Geywitz (* 1976), German politician (SPD)
- Klara Griefahn (1897–1945), Jewish doctor who committed suicide in order to avoid deportation by the Nazis
- Klara Grüger (1912–1999), German Righteous Among the Nations
- Klara Hautmann-Kiss (1920–2000), Austrian architect, set designer and painter
- Klara Heydebreck (1896–1969), German accountant
- Klara Hitler (1860–1907), mother of Adolf Hitler
- Klara Höfels (* 1949), German actress and theater director
- Klara Hofer (1875–1955), German writer
- Klara Lidén (* 1979), Swedish installation, performance and video artist
- Klara Manzel (* 1983), German actress
- Klara Mautner (1879–1959), Austrian journalist and translator
- Klara May (1864–1944), second wife of the writer Karl May
- Klara Merkel (* 2000), German actress
- Klara Neurauter (* 1950), Austrian politician (ÖVP)
- Klara Nowak (1922–2003), German nurse and activist
- Klara Obermüller (* 1940), Swiss journalist, writer and television presenter
- Klara Oppenheimer (1867–1943), German teacher, doctor and women's rights activist
- Klara Philipp (1877–1949), German politician (center)
- Klara Pölt (1862–1926), Austrian writer
- Klara Rumjanowa (1929–2004), Soviet and Russian actress and singer
- Klara Schabbel (1894–1943), German communist and resistance fighter
- Klara Stoffels (1904–1944), German Jehovah's Witness and a victim of the National Socialist martial law
- Klara Svensson (* 1987), Swedish boxer
- Klara Ludwika Szczęsna (1863–1916), Roman Catholic nun and co-founder of the Congregation of the Servants of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
- Klara Ziegler (1844–1909), German actress
Clarissa
- Clarissa Ahlers (* 1965), German lawyer, journalist and television presenter
- Clarissa Ambach (* 20th century), German film editor
- Clarissa Burt (* 1959), American-Italian actress and model
- Clarissa Chun (* 1981), American wrestler
- Clarissa Claretti (* 1980), Italian athlete
- Clarissa Corrêa da Silva (* around 1990), German television presenter and editor
- Clarissa Crotta (* 1978), Swiss show jumper
- Clarissa Handel (* 1979), German actress
- Clarissa Knorr (* 1972), German actress and speaker
- Clarissa von Reinhardt (* 1965), German dog trainer and publisher
- Clarissa Stadler (* 1966), Austrian journalist, presenter and writer
- Gabriele Clarissa Hegerl (* 1962), German climatologist
Fictional people
- Klara Sesemann , character in the Heidi novels by Johanna Spyri
- Clara, fiancee of Nathanael, character from The Sandman by ETA Hoffmann
- Clara, character from the ballet The Nutcracker by Peter Tschaikowsky
Ships
- Klára, see Mainau (Schiff, 1973)