Clëmënt
surname · Latin script
Clëmënt is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 56th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Old French, from Latin clēmēns (“merciful”). Equivalent to clīnō + participial suffix -menos.
- FRFrance≈1 in 880(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.2K
- GHGhana≈1 in 2.3K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 470 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 880 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Clement in FR France, NG Nigeria, ZA South Africa and 1 more and Clements in US United States.
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)
- OldFrench(measured from records)
- Latinclēmēns“merciful”(measured from records)
From Old French, from Latin clēmēns (“merciful”). Equivalent to clīnō + participial suffix -menos.
Sources 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Clëmënt 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #250 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Clement | 110 |
| FR France | #85 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 880 | 176K | Clement | 372 |
| ZA South Africa | #620 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Clement | 67 |
| GH Ghana | #56 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Clement | 79 |
| US United States | — | 7,609 | 1 in 44K | 38K | Clements | 470 |
| GY Guyana | — | 378 | 1 in 2K | 378 | — | 5 |
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 2010; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 Clëmënt mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old French, from Latin clēmēns (“merciful”). Equivalent to clīnō + participial suffix -menos. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Clëmënt have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 175 thousand people named Clëmënt in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled clement.
- How common is the name Clëmënt?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,609 people named Clëmënt in 2020, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is Clëmënt compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Clëmënt is the 250th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cl%C3%ABm%C3%ABntThe 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, “Clëmënt” — the 250th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.