girls:
6 births since 1936
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
14k births since 1880
#987 (78th percentile)
overall:
14k births since 1880
#2212 (71st percentile)
The name Clement is the #2,212 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 14,045 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 71.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #987 (78.5% percentile) for all time with 14,039 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1936.
Clement has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1936 for girls).
The name Clement has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 100.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Clement reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 49.1% percentile (ranked #256) with 361 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 381 births per million (ranked 39.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Clement ranks #859 for boys (5.7% percentile) with 31 births per million, which is 8.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Clement reached its peak popularity in 1936, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #568) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1936.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clement".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Clement. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.8% confident that Clement is pronounced as KLEH-muhnt, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KLEH-muhn, at 12.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K L EH1 M AH0 N T) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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