Clure as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Clure

What is the meaning of the name Clure ?

The baby name Clure is a Unisex name , 1 syllables long and is pronounced /klʊər/ — KLOOR (rhymes with 'cure' in many accents).

Clure is Scottish in Origin.

Clure is a rare given name drawn from the Scottish-Irish surname McClure/Clure. The surname stems from Gaelic Mac Gille Uidhir (Irish Mac Giolla Uidhir), literally "son of the servant of Odhar," with odhar meaning "dun, tawny, pale-brown." Some traditions interpret Odhar as a devotional byname referring to a local saint, yielding the sense "descendant of the devotee of Odhar." Pronounced KLOOR, the name fits the modern surname-as-first-name style while keeping a crisp, one-syllable sound.

As a forename, Clure appears sporadically in 19th- and 20th-century records in Scotland, Ulster, and later the United States, most often masculine but usable as unisex today. Variant spellings of the underlying surname include McClure, MacClure, Maclure, and Mclure; Clu works as a streamlined nickname. The core sense evokes lineage linked to a devotee or to the "tawny/pale" one.

⚙ We have no record of Clure in any national birth registry or name dataset. Most often that means a rare name, a regional or heritage one, or a recent coinage. By any reading, it's an exceptionally uncommon choice.