Clairs Surname

3,485,539th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 32 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Australia
Highest density in:
Australia

Clairs Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Clairs Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Australia291:930,88655,860
England11:55,718,059489,080
Switzerland11:8,212,915156,297
United States11:362,458,9331,988,048
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England71:3,482,19689,582

Clairs (12) may also be a first name.

Clairs Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Clairs Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Clairs is carried by more people in Australia than any other country/territory. It may also appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Clairs? popularity and diffusion

This surname is the 3,485,539th most widely held surname globally It is held by around 1 in 227,735,810 people. The surname Clairs occurs predominantly in Oceania, where 91 percent of Clairs live; 91 percent live in Australasia and 91 percent live in Australia and New Zealand. Clairs is also the 3,306,491st most frequent forename world-wide It is held by 12 people.

The last name Clairs is most frequently held in Australia, where it is held by 29 people, or 1 in 930,886. In Australia Clairs is primarily concentrated in: Western Australia, where 48 percent reside, Queensland, where 31 percent reside and Victoria, where 21 percent reside. Apart from Australia Clairs occurs in 3 countries. It is also common in England, where 3 percent reside and Switzerland, where 3 percent reside.

Clairs Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The prevalency of Clairs has changed through the years. In England the number of people bearing the Clairs surname decreased 86 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Phonetically Similar Names

SurnameSimilarityWorldwide IncidencePrevalency
Clairss921/
Clars917/
Clears83223/
Klairs831/
Clarïs831/
Cellars7713/
Clawers770/
Klars7322/
Klirs7310/
Clers737/
Clauwers71177/
Cuellars715/
Cilliërs711/
Cilleirs711/
Claggers710/
Klaers67382/
Kliers6716/
Klarås6711/
Clarch6710/
Klarsø674/
Clerse674/
Clarce672/
Zlarsh671/
Klarse670/
Clours670/
Klears670/

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
  • Heatmap: Dark red means there is a higher occurrence of the name, transitioning to light yellow signifies a progressively lower occurrence. Clicking on selected countries will show mapping at a regional level
  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Clairs
  • To find out more about this surname's family history, lookup records on Family​Search, My​Heritage, FindMyPast and Ancestry. Further information may be obtained by DNA analysis