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Clara in Japanese

Clara in Japanese

The name Clara is written クララ in Japanese.

クララ

ku-ra-ra

3 morae

Syllable by syllable

Clara is 5 letters in English and 3 beats in Japanese. The two counts are close because Clara is already built from syllables Japanese can take almost unchanged.

  1. クku
  2. ラra
  3. ラra

Every syllable here is one Japanese already had, so the name arrives without any of the adjustments that longer or more consonant-heavy names need.

Written vertically

クララ

Vertical writing runs top to bottom, and columns run right to left. You will meet it on book spines, shop curtains, formal letters and name cards. Nothing in Clara changes shape when it turns: the characters simply stack, in the same order, one under the next.

In kanji: ateji suggestions

Ateji picks kanji for how they sound, not for what they mean — the same trick that writes America as 亜米利加. Every sound in Clara has kanji that genuinely read that way, so these sets stay close to how the name is actually said.

久羅羅

久kua long time
羅rathin silk; long used to write foreign sounds
羅rathin silk; long used to write foreign sounds

玖良良

玖kublack jade
良ragood — as in Nara
良ragood — as in Nara

These are suggestions built from sound, not a translation of your name. We can tell you how each character reads and what it means on its own; we cannot tell you what the combination looks like to a Japanese reader, and we will not tell you it is safe to have tattooed. For anything permanent, show the exact design to someone who reads Japanese fluently first.

How common is Clara in America?

1918peak year
78thrank that year
169thrank in 2025
301,540born with it since 1880

18802025

It is coming back — more common now than it was a generation ago.

Source: US Social Security Administration, national data 1880–2025. Names given to fewer than five babies in a year are not published, so rare spellings are missing rather than absent.

Clara in Japanese name divination

ク2 ラ2 ラ2 = 6 strokes

NumberStrokesReadingMeaning
地格 Earth6大吉 AuspiciousResults
総格 Total6大吉 AuspiciousResults

地格 Earth — The given name alone. Traditionally read as early life.

総格 Total — Every stroke in the name. Read as the whole life.

Only two of the five numbers can be calculated from a given name alone. Add a family name in the converter to see all five.

Seimei handan is a traditional Japanese practice, not a prediction. The stroke counts are arithmetic and verifiable; the readings attached to them are folklore, and schools disagree. We use the Kumazaki classification, which is the most widely published one.

This name comes to 6 strokes, which this school reads as 大吉. 15 of the 81 numbers in the table share that reading.

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