Clement
The English spelling of Klemens, from the Latin for "merciful, gentle". Fewer than 40 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles will never meet one.
Clement Pronunciation
Clement is pronounced TSLE-ment (/ˈt͡slɛmɛnt/).
What Clement means
Where Clement comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Clement comes from the Latin clemens, which meant merciful and gentle. Roman writers used the word for a ruler who held back his anger. The name reached English through the Church, where Saint Clement of Rome, an early pope, kept it in use for centuries.
In England the name stayed practical and plain. Clement Attlee led Britain as prime minister after 1945. The form is short. London kept two churches to Saint Clement, one of them named in the old rhyme Oranges and Lemons.
Polish keeps its own household of the name. Klemens is the fuller variant, Klimek the everyday short form, and Klementyna the form given to girls. On a school register in Poland, Klimek and Clement point back to the same Latin root, merciful and gentle.
How many people are named Clement
1 in 561742 men in Poland is named Clement. 38 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6327 among male names.