Claire/Clare/Clara

[julia-michelle.livejournal.com]

Which do you prefer and why?

I've always favoured Claire, but Clara is a family name (great grandma) and it's really grown on me recently.

Also, FN or MN? What would you pair it with?

Comments

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

Claire is my favorite girls' name, so I guess I have to say that one ;)

[compulsivelyme.livejournal.com]

Clara is lovely.

[ladyjbug.livejournal.com]

I like Clara best.

[monkey-fruit.livejournal.com]

I like Clara the best; I've always hated Claire. =/

[ohhvelocitygirl.livejournal.com]

I've always loved claire antoinette

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Well my name is Claire so I'm biased :p
I don't mind Clara though but it's pronounced a few different ways and I only like it pronounced like CLAAAR-uh not Claire-uh or Clarra if that makes sense

I think it's a nice middle name too... perhaps I like it more as a middle name. As my first name, it can be boring, but I like how it is unassuming. It's not overly frilly or feminine, but it's not a masculine name either, and it's not too trendy or modern, nor is it old fashioned... you don't really jump to any conclusions with the name Claire. So it's an easy name to live with, apart from the fact that it rhymes with heaps of words :p

[jordle.livejournal.com]

My great grandmother's middle name was Clara - pronounced Claire-ah not Claar-ah. I love it.

[murderprotocol.livejournal.com]

Claire's my favourite - although I did go through a stage of liking Clare better - but I do liked Clara too, pronounced claar-ah.

[night-sky-dream.livejournal.com]

Clara. I've never liked the name Claire/Clare.

[holidaylights.livejournal.com]

I like both Claire and Clare. I'm not as fond of Clara.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I like Clara. Claire is fine, but the Claire's I have met were a little stuck up so that sort of ruined it for me.

[mrssubee.livejournal.com]

Clara- although there's something about Claire I like
my Grandma was the Italian version of that name- Chiara (pronounced Key- R- uh)

[rowan-belle.livejournal.com]

I like Claire, but I've never really liked Clara. Plus it always makes me think of a really scary version of Heidi I used to watch as a kid.

[queenfinn.livejournal.com]

I like the spelled of Claire more than Clare. I like Clara.

[lovetokate.livejournal.com]

I like Claire. Clare always seems incomplete to me.

I think of Clara as a separate name but I like it a lot as well.

[mommyaubrey.livejournal.com]

i see Claire as a male name now... my dads uh "friend's" name is Claire, he's like an almost 70 year old man...

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

I prefer Claire...I think it goes with almost anything! Elizabeth Claire is one of my favorites.

[a-tergo-lupi.livejournal.com]

Claire and Clara. I would consider them generally interchangable depending on which ending sound you need for the name to work best.

[bambiblake007.livejournal.com]

Clare
my best friend almost named her 2nd daughter Whitney Clare.

[wizened-cynic.livejournal.com]

Claire. Spelled that way too. Clare looks like it's missing something, IMO, and all the Claras I've ever known are total bitches, so no.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

claire is beautiful and classic, but i really adore clara.

they are both fabulous names that you really cannot go wrong with.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I would never use any of them, because I don't like them, but I think that Clare looks like the best.