Klementyna
From Latin, carrying the sense of "mild, merciful". It stays rare in Poland: most people here have never met one, and last year gave just 48 newborn girls, down from the highs of the early 2020s.
Klementyna Pronunciation
Klementyna is pronounced kle-men-TIH-nah (/klɛmɛnˈtɨna/).
What Klementyna means
Where Klementyna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Klementyna comes from the Latin clemens, meaning mild and merciful. The Romans used clementia for the restraint a powerful person shows toward someone weaker. The name keeps that older sense: mild, merciful.
The root is Latin. Rome gave the word to more than one pope, and it reached Polish through the feminine form. Klementyna Hoffmanowa, born Tańska in 1798, became one of the first Polish women to earn a living by writing. Her books for young readers shaped how a generation learned to read.
In Poland the name keeps a formal ring. You meet it on an official form at the urząd, spelled out in full and rarely shortened. It sits among the classical names that came back into fashion. The meaning stays close to the Latin: łagodny, miłosierny, mild and merciful.
When Klementyna celebrates name day
Klementyna appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 21 October.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Klementyna
1 in 13001 women in Poland is named Klementyna. 1,734 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #748 among female names.
Klementyna's popularity over time
48 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #358 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2006.
Where Klementyna is most popular
Klementyna is most popular in Pomeranian, 98% above the national average (56 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+22%) and Silesian (+21%). It is least common in Podlaskie and Warmian-Masurian, 68% and 56% below average respectively.
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Pomeranian56 girls born+98%
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Lesser Poland53 girls born+22%
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Silesian53 girls born+21%
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Łódź29 girls born+19%
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Masovian69 girls born+1%
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Greater Poland41 girls born−1%
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West Pomeranian15 girls born−7%
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Lubusz8 girls born−16%
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Lower Silesian25 girls born−17%
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Lublin16 girls born−19%
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Opole7 girls born−21%
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Świętokrzyskie7 girls born−34%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian13 girls born−38%
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Subcarpathian13 girls born−44%
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Warmian-Masurian6 girls born−56%
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Podlaskie4 girls born−68%
Klementyna as a middle name
Klementyna is a first name for 1,734 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,378, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 227th, between Tekla (1,380) and Lucja (1,356).
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#225 Bogna1,388
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#226 Tekla1,380
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#227 Klementyna1,378
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#228 Lucja1,356
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#229 Sophie1,336