In 2025, 22 US boys were named Clemente, making it the 4,571st most common boys’ name of the year, down 229 places from #4,342 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 24 boys named Clemente in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #832, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 60, in 2000. For comparison, it was #4,099 in 2015 and #1,503 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Clemente in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 3,751 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 505 babies named Clemente.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 253 US boys were named Clemente; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 33. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Clement (14,173 babies since 1880) and Clemens (1,641 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Clemence are summarised on this page.