Fewer than five US boys were named Clemens in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #636, reached in 1890. The most boys given the name in a single year was 66, in 1918. For comparison, it was #10,935 in 2015 and #2,461 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Clemens in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 7 babies. In all, 1,641 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 471 babies named Clemens.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 21 US boys were named Clemens; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 9.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Clement (14,173 babies since 1880), Clementine (13,676 babies since 1880) and Clemente (3,751 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Clemons are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Latin. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.