In 2025, 676 US girls were named Clementine, making it the 456th most common girls’ name of the year, up 18 places from #474 in 2024. That is 26 more than the 650 girls named Clementine in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #363, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 676, in 2025. For comparison, it was #815 in 2015 and #742 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Clementine in 141 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 19 babies. In all, 13,676 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,468 babies named Clementine.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,089 US girls were named Clementine; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 676. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,378 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Clementine ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #124 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Clemens (1,641 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Clementina, Klementine and Clementene are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Clem and Clement.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.