Clermont
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Person from a French place-name meaning clear hill
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Clermont is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- GAGabon
- SNSenegal
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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 208 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from a French place-name meaning clear hill.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Clermont is read(measured from records)
Clermont is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English24%
Person from a French place-name meaning clear hill.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Ellipsis of Clermont-Ferrand.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Fulton's steamboat
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- French7.8%
ous places so called, from OF clair, cler bright, clear (cf. Clare i) + mont hill (see Mont), i.e. a hill that could be seen a long way off. Cogn.: Cat.: Claramunt (a place in the province of Lerida).
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
a township municipality of Abitibi-Ouest Regional County Municipality, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
de (Le) Clermont, nom de plusieurs localités à travers la France.
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Clermont 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 239 | Clermont | 208 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Clermont | 103 |
| GA Gabon | — | — | Clermont | 1 |
| MA Morocco | — | — | Clermont | 1 |
| SN Senegal | — | — | Clermont | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1.7K | — | 144 |
| BE Belgium | — | 187 | — | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 53 | — | 7 |
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 noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- François Guillaume de Castelnau-Clermont-Ludèveb. 1480FRCatholic cardinal
- Rita Clermontb. 1894DEGerman actress (1894–1969)
- Gaston Clermontb. 1913CALiberal Party member of the Canadian House of Commons
- René Clermontb. 1921FRFrench actor, playwright, and theatre director (1921–1994)
- Clermont Pépinb. 1926CACanadian composer (1926-2006)
- Friedrich Clermontb. 1934DEGerman politician (1934-2011)
- Maurice Clermontb. 1944CACanadian politician
- Philippe Clermontb. 1964French literary scholar, science fiction academic, and university teacher (born 1964)
- Jason Clermontb. 1978CAprofessional football player in the Canadian Football League
- Léa Clermont-Dionb. 1991CACanadian feminist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,766 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,028 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,152 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 339 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 338 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 318 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 308 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 281 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 255 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 239 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 203 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 196 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Clermont mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from a French place-name meaning clear hill. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Clermont have the most bearers?
- Clermont is most frequently recorded in France, where it is most often spelled clermont.
What do you want to know about Clermont?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/clermontThe 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, “Clermont”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.