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Well, since you asked "What are some things you'd associate with a girl named Claire?", I'll tell you. The name Claire has been totally ruined for my sisters and me, because one of my sisters had a friend in high school named Claire. This poor girl was cursed with the homeliest face you can imagine. She was just so ugly. She wasn't overweight or anything like that. She always tried to do her hair in a pretty fashion. But her face...the poor girl.
But it wasn't just that. We realized that no one chooses their face, and wouldn't have held that against her. She was also just...weird. Like every year, she'd choose a female teacher to crush on and obsess over. It was just...weird. She'd spy on the teacher, sort of, if she could watch the teacher going on about her business through a window, she'd do that. One year, it was the school nurse she obsessed over, and the nurse finally told her that it was unhealthy and she should try harder to find friends her own age, and do you know two or three years later Claire was still talking about that! Just..eww. The only reason my sister was friends with her was that she really just attached herself to my sister, and my sister felt sorry for her. Also, she liked my sister so much, and my sister says that when someone likes you that much, it's hard not to like them back at least a little.
But yeah, my sisters and I have mentioned that she totally ruined the name Claire for us.
On the other hand, I had a friend who had an utterly adorable little girl named Claire. So that rehabilitated it a little in my eyes. Still, I could never use it.