Clèmence
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Clèmence is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Benin it is the 78th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From clemence, from Latin clēmentia (“mercy; mildness”).
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 15K
- USUnited States1 in 489K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 320 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Clemence in FR France, US United States, TZ Tanzania and 3 more and Clémence in BE Belgium.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From clemence, from Latin clēmentia (“mercy; mildness”).
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Clèmence counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #229 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | 87K | Clemence | 320 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | 1 | Clemence | 22 |
| CM Cameroon | #374 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Clemence | 17 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #784 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 1 | Clemence | 7 |
| BE Belgium | #883 | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 89 | Clémence | 49 |
| US United States | — | 680 | 1 in 489K | 837 | Clemence | 193 |
| BJ Benin | #78 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Clemence | 9 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); INEC Special Gazette 2021 — 2020 parliamentary election results; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Clèmence mean, and where does it come from?
- From clemence, from Latin clēmentia (“mercy; mildness”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 2 other sources.
- Is Clèmence a male or female name?
- Clèmence is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Clèmence have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Clèmence in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled clemence.
- How common is the name Clèmence?
- In the United States, the national register counted 680 people named Clèmence in 2020, about 1 in 489 thousand residents.
- How common is Clèmence compared with other names?
- In France, Clèmence is the 229th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Clèmence?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cl%C3%A8menceThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Clèmence” — the 229th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.