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Clemmie

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Diminutive of Clementine

Clemmie has been given to 3,609 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1916, with 63 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 73% girls, 27% boys all-time.

Babies named Clemmie, 2021

1 in 565,000

Clemmie over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Clemmie over time

In 2021, Clemmie went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18802021

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Clemmie: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Clementine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Clemmie means

Clemmie is a diminutive of Clementine.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Clemmie is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈklɛm.i/ for Clemmie.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Clementine.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,637 girls were recorded with the name Clemmie between 1880 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 63 in 1916; its best national rank was #427 in 1884.

In the United States, 972 boys were recorded with the name Clemmie between 1892 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1930; its best national rank was #876 in 1894.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Clemmie?

Clemmie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Clemmie sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Clemmie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Clemmies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Clemmie was born before 1921 — so the typical Clemmie is around 104 today.

Median birth year
1921
About 104 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
19.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.23%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
253
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1910s — 19.0% of all recorded uses (501).

Is Clemmie 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 1916 (63)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#427
1884

Spellings of Clemmie

Clemmie is not the most common spelling — Emmie is, with 61.2% against Clemmie's 15.5%.

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 Clemmie is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Clemmie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 44,576 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 12,500
  2. 2Alabama1 in 16,667
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 50,000
  5. 5Tennessee1 in 50,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 50,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Clemmie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Clemmie is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Clemmie was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 192,109 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 50,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Clemmie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Clemmie around the world

Where Clemmie 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.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2025
    #1,512
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2021–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • France
    1988–2003
    #5,122
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Clemmie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#427
1884
Peak year
1916
63 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
2,637
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#876
1894
Peak year
1930
27 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
972
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Clemmie

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

ClemieCleopatraLaramieStormieCleonaNaomieClemenceJaymieCammieCleoraClementinaCleoneKimmieCleolaKammieSammieClellaCletaCamieJaimieMammieNoemieCledaClea

Names with a curve like Clemmie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Clemmie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

VerdieAlbertinePinkieFloridaMammieRillaAnnisLudieJettieVernieEmmerAltha

Sibling names for Clemmie

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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