Is Clair a male or female name?
Clair is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in England and Wales at 100% and male usage in United States at 74%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 71%
- Sample size
- 18,356
- Confidence
- high
Clair by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | male | 74% | 16,323 | ssa |
| France FR | male | 100% | 940 | insee |
| England and Wales GB | female | 100% | 633 | nrs |
| Ireland IE | female | 100% | 307 | cso |
| Canada CA | female | 95% | 128 | statcan |
| Poland PL | female | 100% | 4 | pesel |
Attested in 78 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
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Clair over time
In the United States, 6% of the babies named Clair in the 1880s were girls, against 96.4% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 0% of the babies named Clair in the 1900s were girls, against 0% in the 1940s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6% | 166 | — | |
| 1890s | 16% | 352 | — | |
| 1900s | 19% | 489 | 0% | 170 |
| 1910s | 10% | 2,458 | 0% | 175 |
| 1920s | 10% | 3,539 | 0% | 180 |
| 1930s | 11% | 2,609 | 0% | 145 |
| 1940s | 17% | 1,862 | 0% | 115 |
| 1950s | 26% | 1,437 | — | |
| 1960s | 34% | 777 | — | |
| 1970s | 51% | 406 | — | |
| 1980s | 80% | 542 | — | |
| 1990s | 93% | 577 | — | |
| 2000s | 98% | 528 | — | |
| 2010s | 98% | 443 | — | |
| 2020s | 96% | 138 | — |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Clair with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Clair&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Clair
Is Clair a male or female name?
Clair is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in England and Wales at 100% and male usage in United States at 74%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Clair change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Clair identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.