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Clementine

Pronunciation
[Cle-men-tine]
Gender
Female
Meaning
Clemency: Mercy. Clemence Was The Mythological Roman Goddess Of Pity.
Origin
French
The name Clementine is a baby girl name of Latin origin, it is derived from 'clemens' meaning mild or merciful. The name was famous because of the heroine of the well-known folk song 'Clementine' and the Sir Winston Churchill's wife. Clementine's meaning suggests peace and happiness, a lovely image.

About the Name Clementine

Clementine descends from the Latin Clementia, ultimately from clemens meaning "merciful" or "gentle" — referring originally to the Roman goddess Clementia, the personification of mercy and forgiveness. The name has been used continuously across French-Catholic naming traditions since the medieval period and is anchored by Saint Clement of Rome (1st century CE, the iconic fourth Pope of the Catholic Church).

The name has additional cultural anchoring through the iconic American folk song Oh My Darling, Clementine (c. 1884) and through the iconic British First Lady Clementine Churchill (Clementine Hozier Churchill, 1885–1977, the wife of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill). The name also refers to the iconic clementine fruit (a hybrid orange named in 1902 after the French missionary Frère Clément, anchoring the name in citrus-fruit naming).

Clementine has been climbing through the 2010s and 2020s as part of the broader vintage-revival wave alongside Penelope, Eloise, and Beatrice. The name climbed from outside the US top 1000 in 2010 to the US top 300 girls' rank by 2018 and the top 300 since. The name's appeal is its layered Latin-Catholic-saint-British-American-fruit pedigree combined with three flowing syllables — the in-built mercy etymological register, the strong Clementine Churchill American/British cultural anchor and Oh My Darling Clementine folk-song anchor, and tonal warmth distinctive to vintage-revival names. Three flowing syllables, soft consonants, and the name reads as both classical-vintage and contemporary American. Common nicknames Clem (the dominant short form, casual and warm), Clemmie, Tina, and the rare Mentine each carry distinct registers; the alternate spellings Clementine, Clémentine (French original, with accent), and Klementine (German alternate) have their own SSA tracking. International forms include Clémentine (French original), Clementina (Italian/Spanish/Portuguese), Klementyna (Polish), and the original Latin Clementia.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.

Quick Facts About Clementine

1,414
French baby names in our dictionary
843
French female names
62
10-letter C-names in our dictionary
721
C-female names total
2014–2025
years of US SSA records (12 total)
5,714
total US births named Clementine (all years)

US Popularity History (2014–2025)

🔥 Rising fast: Clementine climbed 146 places in the US girls ranking over the last 5 years (#602 in 2020 → #456 in 2025).

Annual US births named Clementine by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2025 with 676 girls named Clementine (girl rank #456 that year).

Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.

Where in the US Is Clementine Most Popular?

Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Clementine the strongest states are Oregon, Idaho, New Mexico.

Strongest girls-name states

# State Avg rank Births
1 Oregon #285 127
2 Idaho #290 37
3 New Mexico #312 23
4 Washington #339 195
5 Nevada #369 23
6 Arkansas #380 26
7 Colorado #398 132
8 Kansas #483 47
9 Kentucky #486 48
10 Oklahoma #497 61

Weakest girls-name states

# State Avg rank Births
1 New Jersey #830 60
2 Florida #764 176
3 New York #754 174
4 Georgia #744 82
5 Louisiana #735 27
6 Illinois #724 121
7 South Carolina #706 49
8 Texas #703 375
9 North Carolina #702 124
10 Alabama #694 34

Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Clementine in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.

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Clementine vs Isabella 158,431 births since 2014
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Clementine vs Mia 149,779 births since 2014
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