Clement
Clement is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 63 births. Its best rank was 267th, in 1912.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 630.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1918344 births
- Best rank
- #267in 1912
- Since 1880
- 14,103people given the name
The story in the numbers
14,103 boys have been named Clement in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 344 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 90 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Clement | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 242 | |
| 1890s | 317 | |
| 1900s | 442 | |
| 1910s | 2,332 | |
| 1920s | 2,842 | |
| 1930s | 1,845 | |
| 1940s | 1,562 | |
| 1950s | 1,283 | |
| 1960s | 792 | |
| 1970s | 498 | |
| 1980s | 440 | |
| 1990s | 392 | |
| 2000s | 390 | |
| 2010s | 442 | |
| 2020s | 284 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Clement was the 297th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Clement
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Herschelpeak 1921
- Chesterpeak 1920
- Sidneypeak 1918
- Rupertpeak 1920
- Waltonpeak 1922
- Waldopeak 1915
- Orvillepeak 1920
- Edmundpeak 1923
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.