Clemence — unisex name

What the Data Says About Clemence

The Social Security Administration has registered 539 babies named Clemence between 1886 and 2023, spanning 138 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Clemence currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1917, when 20 babies received it in a single year. Clemence is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 418 additional births since 1893.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Clemence performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 126 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Clemence shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Clemence in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Clemence in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 539 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.