Clem
Clem is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 260th, in 1889.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1917102 births
- Best rank
- #260in 1889
- Since 1880
- 4,275people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,275 boys have been named Clem in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 102 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 102 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 20%. It has spent 69 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Clem | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 298 | |
| 1890s | 267 | |
| 1900s | 221 | |
| 1910s | 719 | |
| 1920s | 845 | |
| 1930s | 551 | |
| 1940s | 499 | |
| 1950s | 355 | |
| 1960s | 244 | |
| 1970s | 111 | |
| 1980s | 87 | |
| 1990s | 32 | |
| 2000s | 26 | |
| 2010s | 20 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Clem was the 589th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Clem
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Generalpeak 1918
- Harrypeak 1918
- Adolphuspeak 1922
- Claudpeak 1919
- Elzapeak 1922
- Guspeak 1921
- Columbuspeak 1922
- Rolliepeak 1947
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.