Clotaire
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Germanic royal name, from hlod 'fame' and hari 'army' (Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: ANE, 2025
Clotaire is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. In the Central African Republic it is the 32nd most common given name.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 19Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- MQMartinique≈1 in 22K
- HTHaiti≈1 in 100K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Central African Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Germanic royal name, from hlod 'fame' and hari 'army'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Clotaire counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Clotaire | 5 |
| CM Cameroon | #901 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Clotaire | 14 |
| CF Central African Republic | #32 | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 1 | Clotaire | 6 |
| BJ Benin | #948 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Clotaire | 7 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #74 | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 9.9K | — | Clotaire | 8 |
| MQ Martinique | — | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 5 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2 | 1 in 5.1M | 2 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the masakhane register; ANE — Liste provisoire des candidats (legislatives & regionales 2025); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Clotaire is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Origine germanique; signifie « grande gloire ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Clothar Ib. 498FRnot in their usual nameking of Franks (511-561)
- Chlothar IIb. 584not in their usual nameKing of Neustria
- Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguemab. 1975GAPresident of Gabon since 2023
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Clotaire mean, and where does it come from?
- Germanic royal name, from hlod 'fame' and hari 'army'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Clotaire a male or female name?
- Clotaire is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: France (INSEE, 2024).
- Which countries have the most people named Clotaire?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Clotaire in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled clotaire. After it come Cameroon, Central African Republic, Benin and Congo - Brazzaville; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Clotaire?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 2 people named Clotaire, about 1 in 5.1 million residents.
- How common is Clotaire compared with other names?
- In the Central African Republic, Clotaire is the 32nd most common given name of 56 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/clotaireThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Clotaire” — the 32nd most common given name in the Central African Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.