Clementine
Clementine is a girl's name that peaked in 2025, when it was the 456th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 456th. About 9,000 Clementines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Clementine
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 13,676
- Estimated living today
- 9,000
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 456th
- Rank in 2025
- 456th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Clementines are
born that year still alive today
Of the 13,676 babies given the name since 1880, about 9,000 are alive — 66 in every hundred. Roughly 6,600 of them are children and 1,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
From French Clémentine, from Latin Clēmentīna, from Clēmens (genitive Clēmentis), from clēmens (“merciful”)..
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Clementines
- Clementine Churchill (1885–1977)Wife of Winston Churchill and life peer
- Princess Clémentine, Princess of Koháry (1817–1907)French Royal
- Clémentine of Belgium, Princess Napoléon (1872–1955)Belgian princess
- Clémentine Célarié (born 1957)French actress, singer and writer
- Clémentine Hélène Dufau (1869–1937)French painter
- Clémentine Autain (born 1973)French politician
- Clementine Ford (born 1979)American actress
- Clémentine Delauney (born 1987)French singer
People named Clementine with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Clementine is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Clementine is most concentrated in North Carolina (2.6×), Oregon (2.2×), Washington (2.1×), Mississippi (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular girls’ names the year Clementine peaked:
Clementine elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Clémentine +1 spelling | 38,510 | 87th |
| England and Wales girls | Clementine | 3,302 | 175th |
| Belgium girls | Clémentine | 1,170 | 195th |
| Switzerland girls | Clémentine | 226 | 435th |
| Scotland girls | Clementine | 64 | 324th |
| Ireland girls | Clementine | 15 | 544th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Clementine | 14 | 298th |
| Poland girls | Clementine | 2 birth registrations | 603rd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Clementine: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Clémentine | 14 | 0.001% | 884th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Clémentine | 212 | 0.049% | 143rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Clementine is most concentrated in Valais, where 0.06% of children were given it – 38 of them.
Clementine: rank by region
In 2025, Clementine was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Clémentine | 264 | 10 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Clementine appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (153rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Clementine by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 4 | 538th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Clementine among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Clementine | 755 | 2,458 |
| the Netherlands boys | Clementine | — | 56 |
| Finland girls | Clementine +1 spelling | 13 | 37 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Clementine against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.