Clement

Gender: Male Meaning of Clement: "mild, merciful" Origin of Clement: Latin

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The name Clement is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "mild, merciful". Clement and is often added to lists like Unique Boy Names: Unusual and Rare and discussed in our forums with posts like "Who's their sibling?".

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Clement, the name of fourteen popes and several saints, has a pleasantly, positive, slightly antiquated feel, like the phrase "clement weather."

Clement C. Moore wrote the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas," Clement Attlee was a prominent post-World War II British Prime Minister, and Clement Greenberg was the art critic who promoted Abstract Expressionism.

The hero of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native is Clement Yeobright, known as Clym rather than the usual Clem.

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Famous People Named Clement

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Clement I-XIV, popes
Clement of Alexandria, Church Father and saint
Clement of Dunblane, 13th-century Franciscan friar
Clement of Ireland, Irish saint
Clement of Metz, Bishop of Metz and saint in 4th century
Clement of Ohrid, Eastern Orthodox saint
Clement Richard Attlee, British politician
Clement Chabernaud, French male model
Clement Chang, Canadian-Hong Kong film director
Clement Chantome, French footballer
Clement Cruttwell, English cartographer
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Pop Culture References for the name Clement

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Sir Clement Willoughby, shady suitor in Fanny Burney's novel "Evelina"
"Miracle at Clement's Pond", children's book by Patricia Pendergraft
"clement weather" - mild/sunny weather

Clemmons, Clemense, Clemmie, Clem, Clements, Clemmy

Clement's International Variations

Kliment (Bulgarian) Clément (French) Clemente (Spanish) Kelemen (Hungarian) Klema, Klemo, Klement (Czech) Cliamain (Scottish Gaelic) Cléimeans (Irish Gaelic) Clementius (Latin) Clemens (Danish) Klemens (Swedish)