Comments for the name Clair

My grandfather's name is Clair, after the surname, and he was in American Women in Science because they thought he was a girl.

I've never heard of anyone with this name and definitely not any guys. If you're thinking about naming your son this then you might wanna choose a different name, otherwise he'll be picked on at school for having a girl's name. Or maybe you could spell it with a "K" that looks more guyish plus it's supposed to sound like that.

I love this so much more than Claire.

Clair de Lune means moonlight in French. It's been used as a title for poems, plays, books, songs, etc.

I absolutely cannot imagine this name on males. I've only heard of females named Clair, mostly Claire, and the name sounds feminine to me. It even sounds quite clear, literally. A very beautiful name, short, simple, but not too minimalist. It's overused and thus quite bland, but I still like it, it's elegant and sophisticated.

I much prefer Sinclair to this.

This is my name and I'm a girl! I like that it's spelt a little differently than Claire or Clare because I went to school with about ten of them.

Clair Huxtable (played by Phylicia Rashād) is the mother on the Cosby Show.

Lake Saint Clair, the "sixth" of the Great Lakes, is named after St. Clare. Note that in French, however, it has an -e to it (Lac Sainte-Claire).

I do not like any variant of the name Clair, Claire, etc. It is too feminine for a man and to mannish for a woman. I'm a woman and this is my middle name. Clair is the official spelling on my birth certificate, but when I can I write it as Claire. My first name is Amanda and I hate that too, but it's a little better than Clair. The name Clair/Claire reminds me of a frumpy, mean weirdo teacher I once had.

In English, this would absolutely not work on a boy. It would be perceived as a misspelling of Claire, therefore a "girl name".

Clair is the name of a Dragon-type Gym Leader in the Pokemon games. In this case, it's a female character.

I can't see this as a masculine name, especially because I played the Pokemon games and their Clair is a woman. But it does sound cute. I still prefer Claire, though.