Italian: from the personal name Chiaro, from Latin
Clarus meaning ‘light’, ‘famous’; alternatively the name may
simply have arisen as a nickname from chiaro ‘fair’, ‘clear’,
‘light’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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