girls:
54 births since 1889
#5662 (1st percentile)
boys:
4.3k births since 1880
#1862 (59th percentile)
overall:
4.3k births since 1880
#4165 (46th percentile)
The name Clem is the #4,165 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,329 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 46.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,862 (59.4% percentile) for all time with 4,275 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,662 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 54 births since 1889.
Clem has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1889 for girls). Birth data for Clem is available in 121 out of the 138 years between 1880 and 2017 (121 years for boys and 10 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Clem has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Clem reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 18.8% percentile (ranked #420) with 106 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 344 births per million (ranked 17.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
For girls, Clem reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #575) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 30 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1926.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clem".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Clem. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Clem is pronounced as klehm, which has 1 syllables.
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