Claire and all it's variants

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

How do you spell this name?
I spell it Claire. And because it happens to be my name, I feel like Clair/Clare look somewhat empty.
But the other day I served a girl at work, and she had a name badge on because she worked at the pizza place down the street. She looked at MY name badge and said "Oh, we have the same name!".
I looked at hers, and it was spelt Klayre.
Huuuuhh!?!?
Maybe it's because i'm partial to my own name...but wow.

Comments

[padfootinpurple.livejournal.com]

Wow. I understand where she's coming from since the pronunciations are the same (I'm guessing), but Klayre is ridiculous. I ultimately prefer Claire.

[comicstar.livejournal.com]

Isn't your spelling, or the Clair spelling, an actual french word? Either way it's a lot prettier than Klayre. Ugh.

[fleckerbug.livejournal.com]

Not the same name. :(

Maybe I'm just prejudiced. Yuck.

I actually don't really like Claire are all, but prefer your spelling.

I do like Clara.

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

It is a french name [meaning clear, bright, shining].
I believe clair means clear or something of that nature in french.
and eclairs is lightning.

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

Poor Klayre - some parents just shouldn't be allowed to name their children.

I definitely prefer Claire, though I like Clare as it sounds more Irish than French. I'd associate it with a surname, though - like Angel Clare. I also know a Clair and it's like her parents forgot to finish writing her name.

Ok, I've now done that thing where I look at a word/name for too long and it no longer seems real!

[omgzits--tam.livejournal.com]

I think I prefer Clare over Claire, only because of the store in my mall, Claire's, which is a (sort of) tacky store and of a book I read where the character's name was Clare, and I loved the book.

Clair's kind of off for me, and Klayre... I can't even begin to talk about that.

[bornto-fly.livejournal.com]

I like Claire and Clare. I'm not a fan of Clair, though.

I love the name, too. I also really like Clara.

And, uh... Klayre is AWFUL.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

It's Claire, no other variants !!

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Clair/claire are an adjective in french to say clear, bright, respectively in the masculine and feminine form.
Clair is also a noun.

[tia-karen.livejournal.com]

i've always liked Clara, after the girl in the nutcracker, but in terms of the name claire, there's only one way to spell that and you nailed it.

[ex-bluebonn.livejournal.com]

I like Claire, and I've seen Clare as well (I believe predominantly an Irish thing, as in County Clare). Klayre is just ... no.

[missbailey.livejournal.com]

o dear! the kreatyve spellings.
Claire is what it is and doesn't need to be messed with.

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

It's one of my middle names, spelled Clare. However, I have that spelling cos it is after my great grandfather Clarence.

[in_excelsis_dea.livejournal.com]

I like Claire and I don't mind Clare. Clair seems unfinished to me. And Klayre... I know that it's pronounced the same. But I really wouldn't consider it the same name at all. Her parents must have been on something when naming her.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Klayre? Wow. I'd spell it Claire to. Klayre looks like it's a completely different name. And like it's supposed to be pronounced Klay-r.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

*too

[lovablemess.livejournal.com]

Clair looks unfinished. I quite like Clare.

[elvenmalka523.livejournal.com]

I still get a little ticked when people spell mine Clair. Not only because, well, that's not how my name is spelled, but because it tends to be how it's spelled when used by a male. Clare isn't too bad, but I still prefer Claire.

[zodiacstargazer.livejournal.com]

eww. :[ I prefer Claire, because Debussy is just that awesome. 8D

[americandiva.livejournal.com]

I like it spelt Clarie. Its on my fav list hehe Pretty name

[stummyflies.livejournal.com]

i prefer claire. i'm planning on naming my first daughter [assuming i have one] anna claire or anna katharine. most likely claire.
i agree; clair and clare do look empty.

[http://users.livejournal.com/____tonightt/]

I like Claire

[pythianlegume7.livejournal.com]

My name is Claire too! I absolutely LOVE my name (and yours too incidently haha), my parents couldn't have picked a better one for me.

[celtic-thistle.livejournal.com]

I like Claire better than Clare, honestly. My best friend's baby sister is named Clare and she's an absolute doll. Her name suits her.

[chibiaichan.livejournal.com]

don't worry, i'm wowing with you o.o*** I agree, Claire is the best spelling

[caramelskies.livejournal.com]

My friends middle name is Klera. (clara) Her mother was foreign and that's how you spelled it where she was from. Maybe it's foreign?

I'm partial to Clair

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Haha wow.. as you probably know by now, my name is also Claire... and I once spelled it as klaeyre as a joke, when I was just mucking around with one of those "spell names in the most outrageous ways possible" sort of phases. I can't believe how close that spelling is to my ridiculous invented one!

(PS - I prefer our spelling too :p)

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Far as I can tell Claire is the most common spelling, so I default to that. :)
That said my own middle name is Clair, and I like that because pretty much nobody else does. There's a story behind my father choosing that over Claire or Clare, which I appreciate.

Yeah I'm not crazy about Klayre either.