Clemens
About 1,641 American babies have been named Clemens since 1885, most of them around 1918. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 300 Clemenses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 66.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Clemens
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,641
- Estimated living today
- 300
- Median age today
- 66
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 805th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1885
How old the living Clemenses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,641 babies given the name since 1885, about 300 are alive — 18 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
From Latin Clēmēns (genitive Clēmentis), name of early saints and popes, from clēmēns (“merciful”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Clemenss
- Clemens Brentano (1778–1842)German poet and novelist
- Clemens Fritz (born 1980)German footballer
- Clemens August von Galen (1878–1946)German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal, important figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism
- Clemens Krauss (1893–1954)Austrian conductor and opera impresario
- Clemens Winkler (1838–1904)German chemist
- Clemens Maria Hofbauer (1751–1820)Redemptorist, saint of the Catholic Church
- Clemens von Pirquet (1874–1929)Austrian physician
- Clemens August of Bavaria (1700–1761)Catholic archbishop
People named Clemens with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Clemens is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Clemens is most concentrated in North Dakota (14.3×), Wisconsin (13.3×), Minnesota (5.7×), Illinois (4.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Clemens peaked:
Clemens elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria boys | Clemens | 5,659 | 42nd |
| Switzerland boys | Clemens | 143 | 636th |
| France boys | Clemens | 10 | 3,741st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Clemens: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Clemens | 133 | 0.011% | 447th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Clemens | 9 | 0.002% | 466th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Clemens | 1 | 0.002% | 179th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Clemens is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 46 of them.
Clemens by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 38 | 309th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Clemens among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Clemens | 2,021 | 8,665 |
| the Netherlands girls | Clemens | — | 407 |
| Finland boys | Clemens | 6 | 15 |
Among boys in the Netherlands this is mostly a middle name: of the 8,665 who carry it, 2,021 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Clemens against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.