Clem
Clem was last recorded in 2017, when 9 babies were given it; 4,329 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Clem mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Clem is “a diminutive of the male given name Clement.”
Also “a diminutive of the female given name Clementine.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Clem?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,282, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
109 babies in 1917, the peak
Clem peaked in 1917, when 109 babies were given it (102 boys, #589 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 9 | #8,282 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,422 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,045 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,056 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 6 | #10,911 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,651 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 5 | #10,647 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,079 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #8,944 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,628 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (121)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 9 | #5,581 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,330 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,111 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #4,847 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,042 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,628 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #3,971 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 12 | #3,439 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,288 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,247 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,567 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 10 | #3,850 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,434 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,648 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,764 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,102 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #2,978 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,224 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #2,682 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,583 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 15 | #2,413 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 23 | #1,739 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,215 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 19 | #1,819 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,900 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 21 | #1,728 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 35 | #1,330 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 25 | #1,594 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 16 | #2,052 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 31 | #1,442 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,193 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 29 | #1,467 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 35 | #1,306 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 45 | #1,152 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,260 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,400 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,292 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 46 | #1,076 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,462 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 35 | #1,244 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,186 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 51 | #970 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 46 | #1,036 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 55 | #956 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 63 | #829 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 44 | #966 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 53 | #870 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 49 | #959 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 47 | #972 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 46 | #939 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 45 | #953 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 45 | #933 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 49 | #898 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 48 | #898 | 0.05 |
| 1936 | 50 | #863 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 49 | #906 | 0.05 |
| 1934 | 66 | #754 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 65 | #758 | 0.07 |
| 1932 | 60 | #823 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 49 | #924 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 70 | #766 | 0.06 |
| 1929 | 71 | #755 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 71 | #769 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 92 | #662 | 0.08 |
| 1926 | 79 | #717 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 88 | #683 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 97 | #653 | 0.09 |
| 1923 | 78 | #738 | 0.07 |
| 1922 | 98 | #648 | 0.09 |
| 1921 | 71 | #806 | 0.06 |
| 1920 | 100 | #629 | 0.09 |
| 1919 | 92 | #633 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 94 | #633 | 0.09 |
| 1917 | 102 | #589 | 0.11 |
| 1916 | 92 | #607 | 0.10 |
| 1915 | 92 | #595 | 0.11 |
| 1914 | 84 | #536 | 0.13 |
| 1913 | 51 | #619 | 0.10 |
| 1912 | 66 | #485 | 0.15 |
| 1911 | 23 | #651 | 0.10 |
| 1910 | 23 | #603 | 0.12 |
| 1909 | 28 | #488 | 0.17 |
| 1908 | 24 | #515 | 0.16 |
| 1907 | 25 | #467 | 0.17 |
| 1906 | 12 | #720 | 0.09 |
| 1905 | 27 | #415 | 0.20 |
| 1904 | 17 | #543 | 0.13 |
| 1903 | 18 | #508 | 0.15 |
| 1902 | 25 | #404 | 0.20 |
| 1901 | 17 | #473 | 0.16 |
| 1900 | 28 | #424 | 0.19 |
| 1899 | 22 | #394 | 0.21 |
| 1898 | 24 | #405 | 0.20 |
| 1897 | 28 | #355 | 0.25 |
| 1896 | 27 | #368 | 0.23 |
| 1895 | 28 | #347 | 0.24 |
| 1894 | 24 | #379 | 0.21 |
| 1893 | 28 | #332 | 0.25 |
| 1892 | 39 | #293 | 0.32 |
| 1891 | 22 | #366 | 0.22 |
| 1890 | 25 | #351 | 0.23 |
| 1889 | 41 | #260 | 0.37 |
| 1888 | 29 | #344 | 0.24 |
| 1887 | 32 | #294 | 0.32 |
| 1886 | 25 | #339 | 0.23 |
| 1885 | 34 | #284 | 0.32 |
| 1884 | 32 | #308 | 0.28 |
| 1883 | 31 | #295 | 0.30 |
| 1882 | 34 | #294 | 0.30 |
| 1881 | 18 | #399 | 0.18 |
| 1880 | 22 | #363 | 0.20 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Clem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,329 Americans recorded as Clem, 1% are girls and 99% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Clem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clem, and how old are they?
An estimated 971 Americans named Clem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (22% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 55 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,280 people named Clem (48 women and girls, 1,232 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,216 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Clem born?
The states with the most babies named Clem are Texas, Pennsylvania and Indiana, with 48% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 244 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 107 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 101 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 82 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 63 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 63 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 43 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 42 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 39 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 39 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Clem is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Clem is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Clem with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Clem
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Clem and names like it
- Compare Clem and GeneralBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sClem peaked in 1917.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clem since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Clem.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Clem alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.