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Clemens

Boys' name

Merciful

Clemens has been given to 1,641 babies in the U.S. since 1885. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 66 recorded.

Babies named Clemens, 2024

1 in 371,000

Clemens over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Clemens: meaning, origin, and history

Merciful

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Clemens means

Clemens means “merciful”, associated with clēmēns.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Late Latin Clēmēns (genitive Clēmentis), name of early saints and popes, from clēmēns (“merciful”). Doublet of Clement and San Clemente.

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Origin, language, and formation

Clemens is used in English, German and Latin.

Clemens comes through Late Latin Clēmēns.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Clement.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Clemens is pronounced [ˈkleːmɛns].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,641 boys were recorded with the name Clemens between 1885 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 66 in 1918; its best national rank was #636 in 1890.

How common is Clemens?

Clemens had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 371,000
9 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 191,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
257,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Clemens sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clemens. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Clemenss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Clemens was born before 1925 — so the typical Clemens is around 100 today.

Median birth year
1925
About 100 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
235
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Choose a decade

1920s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (471).

Is Clemens rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (66)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#636
1890

Spellings of Clemens

Clemens is not the most common spelling — Clement is, with 66.0% against Clemens's 7.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Clemens is used

Across 1910–2025, Clemens was most concentrated in North Dakota — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 164,007 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Dakota1 in 25,000
  2. 2Wisconsin1 in 25,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4Michigan1 in 100,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 100,000
  6. 6Missouri1 in 100,000
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Clemens has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Clemens around the world

Where Clemens ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2006–2007
    #3,741
    in 2007
  • South Australia
    1970–1996
    #540
    in 1996

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Clemens by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#636
1890
Peak year
1918
66 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,641
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Clemens

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ClementeClemmieCleatusCletisCleothaClentonCleonClementClemonCleophusCletusMarvensCleophasStevensCleotisClearenceKervensClevenClellClelandCleavonClearnceClestonCleatis

Sibling names for Clemens

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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