Clemens

At the 2020 census, 13,645 Americans bore the surname Clemens — 2,588th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 21,900.

By the numbers

People: 13,645
Rank: 2,588th
How common: 1 in 21,900
Per 100,000: 4.6

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.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Clemens described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Black, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Clemens

Adelaide Clemens (born 1989)Australian actress
Jacob Clemens non Papa (1510–1555)16th-century Flemish composer
Roger Clemens (born 1962)American baseball player
Christian Clemens (born 1991)German footballer
Mathias Clemens (1915–2001)Luxembourgian cyclist
Mary Strong Clemens (1873–1968)American botanist
Josef Clemens (born 1947)Roman Catholic archbishop
Jeremiah Clemens (1814–1865)U.S. Senator, novelist

People named Clemens with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Clemens

Also a first name

Clemens has been given to 1,641 American babies as a first name since 1885, peaking in 1918. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.