The CLAIR surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,520	6858	0.002	17
United States (1880 census)	1,151	4844	0.002	23
Change since 1880	+3369	-2014	0	-6
Other Countries
Australia	221	6873	0.001	14
United Kingdom	275	13466	0.001	6

Top States for CLAIR by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	407	3367	0.003	33
California	335	7316	0.001	10
New York	326	5339	0.002	17
Florida	271	6488	0.002	17
Ohio	262	4771	0.002	23
Top States for CLAIR by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Maine	82	2387	0.006	64
Pennsylvania	407	3367	0.003	33
Colorado	142	3514	0.003	33
Kansas	87	3426	0.003	32
Missouri	172	3871	0.003	31

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CLAIR live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CLAIR represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CLAIR in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CLAIR by picking someone at random in Maine than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CLAIR

Region of origin: Asia

Country of origin: India

Language of origin: Punjabi

Religious origin: Sikh

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CLAIR surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CLAIR in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	385	8.52
Asian/Pacific	60	1.33
White (Hispanic)	58	1.28
Mixed Race	55	1.22
Native American/Alaskan	37	0.82
White (Caucasian)	3,925	86.84

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CLAIR surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to CLAIR

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CLAIR.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.