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Clement vs Clevon

American parents have registered 14,173 Clements since 1880, against 302 Clevons. Clement is still ahead, with 62 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Clement against Clevon, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Clement Clevon

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Clement has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1975, when Clement had 43 and Clevon had 15.

Side by side

  Clement Clevon
Total US births 14,173302
Most in one year 34415
Babies in 2025 62under 5
Estimated living today 4,900260
Median age today 5637
Peak year 19181975
Best rank 297th boys2,637th boys
Rank in 2025 2,258thunranked
First recorded 18801926
Girls / boys 6 / 14,1670 / 302

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Clements alive today are over 56; half the Clevons are over 37. That is 19 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Clement and Clevon.