Clement
2025 SSA
Below 5 births
About Clement
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.
Clement is also given to girls.
Pronounced KLEM-ent.
As of October 2026, Clement ranked #2262 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #267 in 1912, Nameberry popularity #318.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank · boys | Births · boys | US rank · girls | Births · girls |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,760 | 43 | — | 0 |
| 2015 | #2,728 | 44 | — | 0 |
| 2016 | #2,441 | 52 | — | 0 |
| 2017 | #2,324 | 56 | — | 0 |
| 2018 | #2,807 | 43 | — | 0 |
| 2019 | #2,630 | 49 | — | 0 |
| 2020 | #2,591 | 49 | — | 0 |
| 2021 | #2,304 | 60 | — | 0 |
| 2022 | #2,495 | 55 | — | 0 |
| 2023 | #2,394 | 57 | — | 0 |
| 2024 | #2,260 | 63 | — | 0 |
| 2025 | #2,262 | 62 | — | 0 |
World rankings
Clement for boys
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Clement on lists
Famous Clements
- Clement IBoy
XIV, popes
- Clement of AlexandriaBoy
Church Father and saint
- Clement of DunblaneBoy
13th,century Franciscan friar
- Clement of IrelandBoy
Irish saint
- Clement of MetzBoy
Bishop of Metz and saint in 4th century
- Clement of OhridBoy
Eastern Orthodox saint
- Clement Richard AttleeBoy
British politician
- Clement ChabernaudBoy
French male model
- Clement ChangBoy
Canadian,Hong Kong film director
- Clement ChantomeBoy
French footballer
- Clement CruttwellBoy
English cartographer
- Clement FreudBoy
German politician, writer, and comedian
- Clement GreenbergBoy
American art critic
- Clement HurdBoy
illustrator of "Goodnight Moon"
- Clement HaynsworthBoy
American judge
- Clement MarotBoy
French poet
- Clement Clark MooreBoy
American poet and author
- Clement RodierBoy
French missionary in Algeria (namesake of the fruit)
- Clément MignonBoy
French swimmer
Clement in pop culture
- Sir Clement WilloughbyBoy
shady suitor in Fanny Burney's novel "Evelina"
- "Miracle at Clement's Pond"Boy
children's book by Patricia Pendergraft
- "clement weather"Boy
mild/sunny weather