Clemencia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Latin Clementia, 'indulgence, kindness, mercy'
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 25 countries · latest register: INEC, 2024
/kleˈmensja/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Clemencia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- ECEcuador1 in 3.3K(measured from records)
- COColombia≈1 in 5.3K
- PEPeru≈1 in 5.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Latin Clementia, 'indulgence, kindness, mercy'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Clemencia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | #916 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | 87 | Clemencia | 65 |
| CO Colombia | #594 | ≈9,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 4 | Clemencia | 92 |
| PE Peru | #873 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Clemencia | 32 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | Clemencia | 23 |
| EC Ecuador | #274 | 5,176 | 1 in 3.3K | 5.2K | Clemencia | 25 |
| VE Venezuela | #786 | 2,731 | 1 in 10K | 2.7K | Clemencia | 19 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; the co-datosgov-candidates register; the ph-gutenberg1905-names register. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Clemencia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, mercy, clemency
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Compasiva y moderada en su trato
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Clemencia Lucenab. 1945COColombian visual artist, writer, and art critic
- Clemencia Forerob. 1948COColombian politician
- María Clemencia Rodríguez Múnerab. 1955COFirst Lady of Colombia
- Clemencia CarabalíCOhuman rights activist from Colombia
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)42 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 5.2K | #344 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 2.7K | #571 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 87 | #801 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 4 | #117 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2 | — |
| PH Philippines | Philippine given names (Schneider 1905, Project Gutenberg) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Clemencia mean, and where does it come from?
- Latin Clementia, 'indulgence, kindness, mercy'. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Clemencia?
- In the etymology graph, Clemence is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Clemencia?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /kleˈmensja/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /klimẽsjɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Clemencia a male or female name?
- Clemencia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)), Ecuador (INEC, 2024), Venezuela (asosab) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020), among others.
- In which country does Clemencia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Clemencia in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled clemencia.
- Where is Clemencia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Clemencia is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 3.3 thousand people — even though Mexico holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Clemencia?
- In Ecuador, the national register counted 5,176 people named Clemencia in 2024, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Clemencia compared with other names?
- In Mexico, Clemencia is the 916th most common given name of 193,485 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/clemenciaThe 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, “Clemencia” — the 916th most common given name in Mexico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.