Clemens
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Samuel, US author, aka Mark
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 27 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Clemens is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- DEGermany
- RURussia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. 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.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 408 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Clëmëns in AT Austria and Clemens- in DE Germany.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Samuel, US author, aka Mark
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Clemens, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Clemens counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 14K | Clemens | 408 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | Clemens | 105 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Clemens | 104 |
| DE Germany | — | — | Clemens- | 224 |
| AT Austria | — | 6.7K | Clëmëns | 146 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 8.7K | — | 71 |
| BE Belgium | — | 605 | — | 46 |
| SE Sweden | — | 348 | — | 25 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)Clemens is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Twain; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In German, zu lat. clemens ‘mild, gnädig’; zeigt C-/K-/Cl-/Ch- und Endungsvarianten.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, from Latin clemens ‘mild, gracious’
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Latin clemens 'mild, gentle'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, Aus dem Rufnamen Clemens < lat. clemens „gütig, gnädig“; die Karte zeigt C/K-Schreibung in patronymischen Vollformen. Bearer count: 5176.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)- papa Clemente IIIb. 1124ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1188 to 1191
- Clement Vb. 1264FRnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1305 to 1314 (1264–1314)
- Clemente VIb. 1291FRnot in their usual namePope of the Catholic Church and the fourth Avignon Pope (1342–1352)
- Clemens VIIIb. 1536ITpope of the Catholic Church from 1592 to 1605 (1536–1605)
- Clemens Xb. 1590ITpope of the Catholic Church from 1670 to 1676 (1590-1676)
- Clement IXb. 1600ITnot in their usual namepope from 1667, lived 1600-1669
- Clemens XIb. 1649ITpope of the Catholic Church from 1700 to 1721
- Clement XIIb. 1652FRnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1730 to 1740
- Clemens XIIIb. 1693ITpope of the Catholic Church from 1758 to 1769
- Clemens XIVb. 1705ITpope of the Catholic Church from 1769 to 1774
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)Evidence
(measured from records)57 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 14K | #2,542 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 14K | #2,373 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 14K | #2,588 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 805 | #2,216 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 605 | #2,445 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 588 | #2,536 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Clemens mean, and where does it come from?
- Samuel, US author, aka Mark Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Clemens have the most bearers?
- Clemens is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled clemens.
What do you want to know about Clemens?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/clemensThe 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, “Clemens”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.