Clemence
Clemence was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,263 among girls’ names; 966 Americans have been recorded with it since 1886 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clemence by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Clemence mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Clemence is “a female given name from Latin.” Its etymology gives the sense “mercy; mildness” (clēmentia).
From clemence, from Latin clēmentia (“mercy; mildness”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Clemence?
#10,263 among girls’ names, 2025
Clemence rose from #14,914 in 2015 to #10,263 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.4 to 5.6 per million.
39 babies in 1917, the peak
Clemence peaked in 1917, when 39 babies were given it (20 girls, #1,787 among girls’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,263 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,697 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,568 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,340 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,072 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,701 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,218 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,889 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,068 | under 5 | |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,914 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #14,982 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,481 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,797 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,917 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,820 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,719 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,877 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 7 | #3,360 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 5 | #3,766 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 7 | #2,908 | |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,041 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 5 | #3,614 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 5 | #3,636 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 13 | #2,047 | |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,886 | 9 | #2,596 |
| 1933 | under 5 | 10 | #2,397 | |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,523 | 10 | #2,492 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,435 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,101 | 9 | #2,812 |
| 1929 | 10 | #2,956 | 17 | #1,861 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,278 | 16 | #1,977 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,331 | 17 | #1,969 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,950 | 14 | #2,216 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,976 | 16 | #2,021 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,073 | 15 | #2,146 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,708 | 14 | #2,248 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,424 | 23 | #1,598 |
| 1921 | 16 | #2,304 | 18 | #1,917 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,940 | 22 | #1,656 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,086 | 20 | #1,706 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,703 | 23 | #1,551 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,787 | 19 | #1,704 |
| 1916 | 11 | #2,693 | 18 | #1,708 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,894 | 20 | #1,568 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,921 | 22 | #1,271 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,916 | 9 | #1,970 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,422 | 10 | #1,639 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,386 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,192 | 6 | #1,452 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,009 | under 5 | |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,177 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,668 | 5 | #1,376 |
| 1906 | 13 | #1,059 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,567 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,183 | 9 | #821 |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,463 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,472 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 14 | #884 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 14 | #1,016 | under 5 | |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,436 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,114 | under 5 | |
| 1897 | 9 | #1,098 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,059 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 8 | #1,215 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 8 | #1,152 | under 5 | |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,197 | 5 | #1,070 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,493 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 10 | #881 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,320 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | 6 | #1,009 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Clemence a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 966 Americans recorded as Clemence, 57% are girls and 43% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Clemence: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clemence, and how old are they?
An estimated 148 Americans named Clemence and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (15% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 680 people named Clemence (550 women and girls, 130 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 142 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,387 babies since 1880, Clemence is the most given (70% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Clemence
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 Clemence and names like it
- Compare Clemence and ClemenciaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sClemence peaked in 1917.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clemence since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Clemence: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Clemence.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Clemence alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with CMost given first.