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Clemente

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Clemente is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 24 births. Its best rank was 832nd, in 1880.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
240.00% of boys
Peak year
199660 births
Best rank
#832in 1880
Since 1880
3,729people given the name
Babies named Clemente, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

3,729 boys have been named Clemente in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1996, with 60 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1977, and the 1990s alone account for 14%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Clemente
1880s6
1910s121
1920s272
1930s230
1940s266
1950s315
1960s332
1970s415
1980s420
1990s505
2000s447
2010s286
2020s114

In 1996, its biggest year

Clemente was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1996 were Michael, Matthew, Jacob, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1996.

Names that rose and fell with Clemente

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.