Clement

Latin
"mild, merciful"

Clement Origin and Meaning

The name Clement is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "mild, merciful".

Clement, the name of fourteen popes and several saints, has a pleasantly, positive, slightly antiquated feel, like the phrase "clement weather."

Clement C. Moore wrote the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas," Clement Attlee was a prominent post-World War II British Prime Minister, and Clement Greenberg was the art critic who promoted Abstract Expressionism.

The hero of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native is Clement Yeobright, known as Clym rather than the usual Clem.

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Famous People Named Clement

  • Clement I
    XIV, popes
  • Clement of Alexandria
    Church Father and saint
  • Clement of Dunblane
    13th,century Franciscan friar
  • Clement of Ireland
    Irish saint
  • Clement of Metz
    Bishop of Metz and saint in 4th century
  • Clement of Ohrid
    Eastern Orthodox saint
  • Clement Richard Attlee
    British politician
  • Clement Chabernaud
    French male model
  • Clement Chang
    Canadian,Hong Kong film director
  • Clement Chantome
    French footballer
  • Clement Cruttwell
    English cartographer
  • Clement Freud
    German politician, writer, and comedian
  • Clement Greenberg
    American art critic
  • Clement Hurd
    illustrator of "Goodnight Moon"
  • Clement Haynsworth
    American judge
  • Clement Marot
    French poet
  • Clement Clark Moore
    American poet and author
  • Clement Rodier
    French missionary in Algeria (namesake of the fruit)
  • Clément Mignon
    French swimmer

Clement in Pop Culture

  • Sir Clement Willoughby
    shady suitor in Fanny Burney's novel "Evelina"
  • "Miracle at Clement's Pond"
    children's book by Patricia Pendergraft
  • "clement weather"
    mild/sunny weather

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