Clément
From the Latin for merciful and mild, this French name reaches Poland only faintly: just 74 men carry it. Rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Clément Pronunciation
Clément is pronounced TSLÉMENT (/t͡slémɛnt/).
What Clément means
Where Clément comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Clément comes from the Latin clemens, clementis, an adjective meaning merciful, gentle, mild. Roman writers used it of a ruler who reined in his anger and of weather that stayed soft. The word passed into French and settled on people as a name. The sense stayed close to the source.
French history handed the name real bearers. Clément Marot wrote verse at the court of Francis I in the early sixteenth century. Clément Ader built flying machines in the 1890s and gave French the word avion, still its everyday term for aircraft.
In a Polish class register the name can show up with its accent kept, Clément sitting among the Klemens boys, since Poland holds the same Latin stem in its own Klemens. The name day falls on 23 November, for an early bishop of Rome. The root is still legible in it, the Latin clemens, merciful.
How many people are named Clément
1 in 288462 men in Poland is named Clément. 74 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4157 among male names.
Clément's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Clément as a middle name
Clément is a first name for 74 men in Poland and a middle name for another 23, a 76/24 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1790th, between Claudiu (23) and Cornel (23).
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#1788 Chukwuma23
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#1789 Claudiu23
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#1790 Clement23
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#1791 Cornel23
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#1792 Danek23