Clementine vs Cleon
American parents have registered 13,676 Clementines since 1880, against 3,189 Cleons. Clementine is still ahead, with 676 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Clementine Cleon
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Clementine for 117 years and Cleon for 29 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.
- 1880–1966 Clementine ahead
- 1967–1983 Cleon ahead
- 1984 Clementine ahead
- 1985–1995 Cleon ahead
- 1996 Clementine ahead
- 1997 Cleon ahead
- 1998–2025 Clementine ahead
Side by side
| Clementine | Cleon | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 13,676 | 3,189 |
| Most in one year | 676 | 86 |
| Babies in 2025 | 676 | 7 |
| Estimated living today | 9,000 | 1,300 |
| Median age today | 8 | 54 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 1921 |
| Best rank | 456th girls | 772nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 456th | 9,714th |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1884 |
| Girls / boys | 13,676 / 0 | 189 / 3,000 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Cleons alive today are over 54; half the Clementines are over 8. That is 46 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Clementine North Carolina (2.6×), Oregon (2.2×), Washington (2.1×)
- Cleon Pennsylvania (4.5×), Georgia (3.9×), New York (3.1×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
Both names abroad
Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.
| Country | Clementine | Cleon |
|---|---|---|
| France | 38,510 Clémentine | 60 Cléon |
| England and Wales | 3,302 | 16 |
Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.
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Related comparisons
Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Clementine and Cleon.