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Meaning, origin and pronunciation, with published usage by place and year.
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Bright, in the documented Italian given-name tradition.
The Italian personal-name entry explicitly derives Chiara from the adjective meaning bright. The similar Irish Ciara tradition remains distinct; a universal dark-root claim is not established for Chiara.
Italian given-name tradition, also borrowed into German.
The exact Italian and German given-name sections establish this route. The separate English surname entry does not supply an English first-name etymology or reading.
Not yet published for this spelling.
Counts apply only to the exact spelling, place, year and recorded usage shown. Places are separate; these figures are never added into a worldwide total. Missing or suppressed records never mean zero.
| Place | Year | Recorded usage | Published births | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada | 2025 | Girls | 77 · preliminary | 400 | 2025 figures are preliminary. Quebec counts below five are randomly imputed by the publisher before national aggregation. Accents are removed in the source; this profile was matched only where the catalog spelling was unambiguous. Unpublished values are unknown, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| France | 2025 | Girls | 315 (rounded to 5) | 177 | Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of five. Ranks use unrounded publisher counts with randomly ordered ties; equally rounded counts can have different ranks. National coverage excludes Mayotte before 2012. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Automated direction labels are withheld for this rounded-count series. Rank basis: source published. |
| England & Wales | 2025 | Girls | 68 | 580 | Published ranks differ from ranks calculated over visible rows. Counts retained; automated trend labels withheld. Rank basis: source published. |
| Scotland | 2025 | Girls | 3 | 780 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| Ireland | 2025 | Girls | 5 | 608 | Names below three occurrences are unpublished. Accent recording changed in 2018; comparisons across that boundary may not describe the same spelling coverage. Counts refer to registrations in the year. Missing years are unavailable, not zero. Rank basis: source published. |
| United States | 2025 | Girls | 228 | 1065 | Source-reported counts; unpublished names are not zero. Rank basis: calculated from published counts. |
Canada, Ireland and France coverage includes confidently matched existing profiles only; unmatched spellings are awaiting review. French counts are rounded to five.
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The exact German section records a female given name borrowed from Italian. This documents use, without assigning ancestry to a bearer. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Chiara&oldid=90663403. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the exact given-name evidence, preserving separate cultural histories. No quotation, audio, image or surname statistics reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
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The Italian section explicitly records a female given name. The English section is surname-only and is not used as evidence of English given-name pronunciation. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Chiara&oldid=90663403. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the exact given-name evidence, preserving separate cultural histories. No quotation, audio, image or surname statistics reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The Italian personal-name entry explicitly derives Chiara from the adjective meaning bright. The similar Irish Ciara tradition remains distinct; a universal dark-root claim is not established for Chiara. Credit: Wiktionary contributors; Ivar Utne / Babyverden, exact Kiara and Chiara name entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Chiara&oldid=90663403; https://www.babyverden.no/navn/chiara/. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Other sources: original brief factual summary; source rights retained; no open license claimed. Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the exact given-name evidence, preserving separate cultural histories. No quotation, audio, image or surname statistics reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC BY-SA 4.0; other source rights retained
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This reading belongs to the Italian personal-name section. It remains a source-language pronunciation and is not presented as English. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Chiara&oldid=90663403. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the exact given-name evidence, preserving separate cultural histories. No quotation, audio, image or surname statistics reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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The exact Italian and German given-name sections establish this route. The separate English surname entry does not supply an English first-name etymology or reading. Credit: Wiktionary contributors; Ivar Utne / Babyverden, exact Kiara and Chiara name entries. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Chiara&oldid=90663403; https://www.babyverden.no/navn/chiara/. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Other sources: original brief factual summary; source rights retained; no open license claimed. Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the exact given-name evidence, preserving separate cultural histories. No quotation, audio, image or surname statistics reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC BY-SA 4.0; other source rights retained
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The exact Italian personal-name entry identifies Clara as an English equivalent. This cross-language relationship keeps the spelling-specific records separate. Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Sources: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Chiara&oldid=90663403. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the exact given-name evidence, preserving separate cultural histories. No quotation, audio, image or surname statistics reused.
Credit: Wiktionary contributors. Adapted by Rare Baby Names: wording shortened and name contexts separated. Recorded pronunciations are shown as published.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Babyverden describes a possible Italian Chiara route for Kiara. This is separate from the Irish Ciara route, so the relationship is qualified rather than treated as one shared root. Credit: Wiktionary contributors; Ivar Utne / Babyverden, exact Kiara and Chiara name entries. Sources: https://www.babyverden.no/navn/kiara/; https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Chiara&oldid=90663403. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Other sources: original brief factual summary; source rights retained; no open license claimed. Adaptation: Rare Baby Names summarized the exact given-name evidence, preserving separate cultural histories. No quotation, audio, image or surname statistics reused.
This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC BY-SA 4.0; other source rights retained
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Attribution: (C) Crown copyright. Data supplied by National Records of Scotland.
License: Open Government Licence v3.0
Attribution: Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence
License: Open Government Licence v3.0
Attribution: U.S. Social Security Administration
Credit: Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0147-01, 1991–2025, released 23 September 2026.
License: Statistics Canada Open Licence
Adaptation: Adapted from Statistics Canada, First names at birth by sex at birth, selected indicators, Table 17-10-0147-01, reference years 1991–2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Credit: Central Statistics Office, Ireland, VSA50 and VSA60, updated 27 February 2026.
License: CC BY 4.0
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: joined the published count and rank indicators and matched unambiguous existing spellings. Source values retained.
Credit: Source : Insee, Fichier des prénoms, updated 16 July 2026.
License: Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab)
Adaptation: Adapted by Rare Baby Names: column names and sex codes mapped and unique case-only spellings matched to existing profiles. Published rounded counts and ranks retained.
