Clemmie
Clemmie was last recorded in 2021, when 6 babies were given it; 3,609 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Clemmie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Clemmie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Clemmie is “a diminutive of the female given name Clementine.”
Diminutive + -ie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Clemmie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,861, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
82 babies in 1917, the peak
Clemmie peaked in 1917, when 82 babies were given it (63 girls, #868 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | #13,861 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 6 | #7,939 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 8 | #5,272 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #6,700 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 5 | #6,542 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #6,450 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,206 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 5 | #5,957 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 7 | #4,395 | |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,658 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | under 5 | 14 | #2,553 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 8 | #3,712 | |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,214 | 8 | #3,567 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,070 | 7 | #3,655 |
| 1968 | under 5 | 9 | #2,941 | |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,139 | 7 | #3,297 |
| 1966 | under 5 | 6 | #3,591 | |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,551 | 11 | #2,495 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,930 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,596 | 13 | #2,322 |
| 1962 | under 5 | 10 | #2,702 | |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,627 | 6 | #3,709 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,501 | 10 | #2,711 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,773 | 24 | #1,631 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,109 | 12 | #2,387 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,347 | 11 | #2,510 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,067 | 14 | #2,179 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,645 | 15 | #2,063 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,522 | 17 | #1,900 |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,532 | 10 | #2,567 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,276 | 22 | #1,624 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,324 | 25 | #1,493 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,872 | 16 | #1,893 |
| 1949 | 27 | #1,848 | 12 | #2,246 |
| 1948 | 33 | #1,624 | 18 | #1,768 |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,663 | 19 | #1,743 |
| 1946 | 22 | #1,974 | 23 | #1,479 |
| 1945 | 35 | #1,355 | 15 | #1,789 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,616 | 11 | #2,213 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,671 | 16 | #1,849 |
| 1942 | 26 | #1,636 | 17 | #1,746 |
| 1941 | 33 | #1,337 | 17 | #1,700 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,526 | 25 | #1,339 |
| 1939 | 27 | #1,432 | 7 | #2,877 |
| 1938 | 34 | #1,250 | 18 | #1,624 |
| 1937 | 30 | #1,335 | 15 | #1,836 |
| 1936 | 31 | #1,298 | 7 | #2,913 |
| 1935 | 35 | #1,206 | 24 | #1,395 |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,208 | 18 | #1,667 |
| 1933 | 38 | #1,141 | 21 | #1,509 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,390 | 15 | #1,933 |
| 1931 | 39 | #1,151 | 17 | #1,783 |
| 1930 | 43 | #1,130 | 27 | #1,405 |
| 1929 | 37 | #1,224 | 16 | #1,945 |
| 1928 | 46 | #1,117 | 18 | #1,843 |
| 1927 | 48 | #1,099 | 21 | #1,700 |
| 1926 | 51 | #1,047 | 22 | #1,619 |
| 1925 | 49 | #1,092 | 13 | #2,331 |
| 1924 | 41 | #1,247 | 15 | #2,147 |
| 1923 | 61 | #942 | 14 | #2,249 |
| 1922 | 51 | #1,062 | 22 | #1,658 |
| 1921 | 57 | #990 | 14 | #2,277 |
| 1920 | 55 | #991 | 13 | #2,355 |
| 1919 | 47 | #1,061 | 11 | #2,533 |
| 1918 | 56 | #961 | 14 | #2,179 |
| 1917 | 63 | #868 | 19 | #1,705 |
| 1916 | 63 | #858 | 14 | #2,059 |
| 1915 | 54 | #893 | 13 | #2,088 |
| 1914 | 59 | #751 | 7 | #2,702 |
| 1913 | 36 | #883 | 8 | #2,124 |
| 1912 | 54 | #679 | 8 | #1,914 |
| 1911 | 35 | #735 | 6 | #1,569 |
| 1910 | 34 | #723 | 7 | #1,333 |
| 1909 | 44 | #581 | 7 | #1,174 |
| 1908 | 25 | #773 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | 39 | #591 | 5 | #1,377 |
| 1906 | 31 | #649 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 27 | #686 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 31 | #614 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 33 | #565 | under 5 | |
| 1902 | 26 | #653 | under 5 | |
| 1901 | 30 | #562 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 38 | #558 | under 5 | |
| 1899 | 30 | #551 | 5 | #1,079 |
| 1898 | 28 | #612 | under 5 | |
| 1897 | 30 | #540 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 36 | #491 | under 5 | |
| 1895 | 24 | #625 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 26 | #573 | 7 | #876 |
| 1893 | 22 | #615 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 38 | #435 | 5 | #1,095 |
| 1891 | 20 | #592 | under 5 | |
| 1890 | 23 | #550 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 22 | #547 | under 5 | |
| 1888 | 22 | #535 | under 5 | |
| 1887 | 10 | #741 | under 5 | |
| 1886 | 21 | #479 | under 5 | |
| 1885 | 12 | #633 | under 5 | |
| 1884 | 22 | #427 | under 5 | |
| 1883 | 13 | #544 | under 5 | |
| 1882 | 16 | #460 | under 5 | |
| 1881 | 8 | #637 | under 5 | |
| 1880 | 12 | #496 | 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 Clemmie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,609 Americans recorded as Clemmie, 73% are girls and 27% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Clemmie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Clemmie, and how old are they?
An estimated 787 Americans named Clemmie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (22% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 66 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 873 people named Clemmie (536 women and girls, 337 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,026 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Clemmie born?
The states with the most babies named Clemmie are Texas, Alabama and Mississippi, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 316 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Alabama | 208 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Mississippi | 205 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Georgia | 116 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 54 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Arkansas | 52 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Clemmie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Clemmie is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 3.5 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 girls’ 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 Clemmie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,986 babies since 1880, Clemmie is the most given (91% 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 Clemmie
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 Clemmie and names like it
- Compare Clemmie and ClemieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sClemmie peaked in 1917.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Clemmie since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Clemmie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Clemmie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.