Where the spelling 클레어 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 클레어 for Claire.
People in the list with this given name:
- 데이셔넬, 조이 (클레어) — Deschanel, Zooey (Claire)
- 매캐스킬, 클레어 (코너) — McCaskill, Claire (Conner)
- 더수자, 프랜시스 (거트루드 클레어) — D’Souza, Frances (Gertrude Claire)
…and 1 more in the list.
Sound by sound
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
What Claire means
“bright”
Recorded in Wiktionary for Clare, of which Claire is a spelling variant.
From Latin clarus
Source: Wiktionary — Clare · CC BY-SA 4.0
Claire by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 154, 107,731 babies (100% girls, 0% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 클레어: 4.
Korean names for Claire
These are the converter’s results for Claire as a girl’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).
Sounds like mine
Closest in sound among real Korean names.
No surname given, so we picked 이, one of the three most common Korean surnames.
Meaning
Korean names from what Claire means.
Your name means: bright (from Latin clarus)
Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics