Clementine vs Clevon
American parents have registered 13,676 Clementines since 1880, against 302 Clevons. Clementine is still ahead, with 676 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Clementine 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
Of the 145 years in which either name was published, Clementine for 138 years and Clevon for 7 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.
- 1880–1972 Clementine ahead
- 1973 Clevon ahead
- 1974 Clementine ahead
- 1975–1977 Clevon ahead
- 1978–1982 Clementine ahead
- 1983 Clevon ahead
- 1984–1992 Clementine ahead
- 1993–1994 Clevon ahead
- 1995–2025 Clementine ahead
Side by side
| Clementine | Clevon | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 13,676 | 302 |
| Most in one year | 676 | 15 |
| Babies in 2025 | 676 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 9,000 | 260 |
| Median age today | 8 | 37 |
| Peak year | 2025 | 1975 |
| Best rank | 456th girls | 2,637th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 456th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1926 |
| Girls / boys | 13,676 / 0 | 0 / 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 Clevons alive today are over 37; half the Clementines are over 8. That is 29 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: Clementine and Clevon.