Clement
Clement reached its high-water mark in 1918 at number 297, and has been recorded 14,173 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 2,258th. About 4,900 Clements are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 56.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Clement boys named Clement
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 14,173
- Estimated living today
- 4,900
- Median age today
- 56
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 297th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,258th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 6 / 14,167
How old the living Clements are
born that year still alive today
Of the 14,173 babies given the name since 1880, about 4,900 are alive — 34 in every hundred. Roughly 860 of them are children and 1,900 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1969 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
Origin Latin
From Latin Clēmens (genitive Clēmentis), name of early saints and popes, from clēmens (“merciful”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Clements
- Clement I (100–99)4th Pope of the Catholic Church
- Clement Attlee (1883–1967)Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951
- Clement XII (1652–1740)pope of the Catholic Church from 1730 to 1740
- Clement VIII (1536–1605)pope of the Catholic Church from 1592 to 1605
- Clement VII (1478–1534)pope of the Catholic Church from 1523 to 1534
- Clement XIII (1693–1769)pope of the Catholic Church from 1758 to 1769
- Clement X (1590–1676)pope of the Catholic Church from 1670 to 1676
- Clement XI (1649–1721)pope of the Catholic Church from 1700 to 1721
People named Clement with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Clement is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Clement is most concentrated in Hawaii (5.8×), Vermont (5.6×), Pennsylvania (2.9×), Maine (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1918
The most popular boys’ names the year Clement peaked:
Clement elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Clément +1 spelling | 180,500 | 8th |
| Belgium boys | Clément +1 spelling | 4,431 | 52nd |
| Switzerland boys | Clément +1 spelling | 733 | 213th |
| England and Wales boys | Clement | 510 | 1,081st |
| Ireland boys | Clement | 157 | 163rd |
| France girls | Clément | 80 | 4,118th |
| Scotland boys | Clement | 3 | 648th |
| Poland boys | Clément | 2 birth registrations | 663rd |
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.
Clement: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Clément | 50 | 0.004% | 700th |
| German boys | Switzerland | Clement | 9 | 0.001% | 965th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Clément | 647 | 0.149% | 35th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Clement | 26 | 0.006% | 158th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Clément | 1 | 0.002% | 193rd |
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, Clement is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.24% of children were given it – 35 of them.
Clement: rank by region
In 2025, Clement was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Clément | 240 | 25 |
| Wallonia | Clément | 32 | 76 |
| Brussels | Clément | 225 | 6 |
In 2013, Clement was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Clement | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Clement appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (21st), Province of Liège (27th), Province of Namur (32nd), Province of Luxembourg (37th), Province of Hainaut (50th), Province of West Flanders (121st), Province of East Flanders (132nd) and Brussels-Capital Region (225th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Clement 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Clement +1 spelling | 14 | 31 |
A count of people on a register – 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.
Where Clement lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 197 men called Clement were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lleida | Clement | 9 | 0.038 | 1,539 |
| Barcelona | Clement | 57 | 0.020 | 2,396 |
| Almería | Clement | 7 | 0.018 | 2,641 |
| Girona | Clement | 7 | 0.017 | 2,753 |
| Murcia | Clement | 13 | 0.016 | 2,377 |
| Málaga | Clement | 11 | 0.013 | 3,271 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Clement 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.