The name Clement is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "mild, merciful". Clement and is often added to lists like Saints' Names For Boys and discussed in our forums with posts like "Drop your least favorite (boys)".
From the experts:
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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