Clemens
Clemens is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 9 births. Its best rank was 636th, in 1890.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 90.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191866 births
- Best rank
- #636in 1890
- Since 1885
- 1,641people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,641 boys have been named Clemens in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 66 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 19 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Clemens | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 19 | |
| 1890s | 32 | |
| 1900s | 48 | |
| 1910s | 446 | |
| 1920s | 471 | |
| 1930s | 227 | |
| 1940s | 163 | |
| 1950s | 77 | |
| 1960s | 31 | |
| 1970s | 5 | |
| 1980s | 8 | |
| 1990s | 25 | |
| 2000s | 45 | |
| 2010s | 23 | |
| 2020s | 21 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Clemens was the 805th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Clemens
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Irvingpeak 1918
- Wilburpeak 1918
- Orvelpeak 1919
- Alphonsepeak 1918
- Elmopeak 1920
- Merlpeak 1922
- Orvillepeak 1920
- Morrispeak 1918
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.