Clements
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Son of Clement
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/cʎɛmənts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Clements is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 56th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 880as Clement(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 1.2Kas Clement
- GHGhana≈1 in 2.3Kas Clement
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Clements itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 470 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 880 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 named Clement, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
France, est., as Clement
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Clement in FR France, NG Nigeria, ZA South Africa and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Son of Clement.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Clements counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #250 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Clement | 110 |
| FR France | #85 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 880 | 176K | Clement | 372 |
| ZA South Africa | #620 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Clement | 67 |
| GH Ghana | #56 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Clement | 79 |
| US United States | — | 7,609as Clement | 1 in 44K | 38K | Clements | 470 |
| GY Guyana | — | 378as Clement | 1 in 2K | 378 | — | 5 |
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 prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Clements is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, An English name long associated with Cos. Leitrim and Donegal. See foregoing
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Frederic Clementsb. 1874USAmerican ecologist (1874–1945)
- Edith Schwartz Clementsb. 1874USU.S. botanist and botanical illustrator (1874–1971)
- Earle Clementsb. 1896USAmerican farmer and politician (1896-1985)
- John Clementsb. 1910GBBritish actor (1910-1988)
- Bill Clementsb. 1917USAmerican businessman, politician and former Governor of Texas (1917–2011)
- Stanley Clementsb. 1926USAmerican actor (1926–1981)
- Ron Clementsb. 1953USAmerican animation director (born 1953)
- Jonathan Clementsb. 1971GBBritish author and scriptwriter (born 1971)
- Sasha Clementsb. 1990CACanadian actress (born 1990)
- Kennedi Clementsb. 2007USCanadian child actress
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 34 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 38K | #908 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 37K | #843 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 37K | #933 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 55 | #570 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 4 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Clements mean, and where does it come from?
- Son of Clement. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Clements?
- A machine transcription gives /cʎɛmənts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Clements have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 175 thousand people named Clement in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Clements?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,609 people named Clement in 2020, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
- How common is Clements compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Clements is the 250th most common given name of 138,191 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/clementsThe 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, “Clements” — the 250th most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.