Clement

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

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Clement Origin and Meaning

The name Clement is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "mild, merciful".

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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Clement I-XIV, popes
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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)