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Klemens

From the Latin for gentle or merciful. Around 1,500 Polish men carry it, so most people here have never met one, yet it's climbing: more boys got the name last year than in most years past.

Klemens Pronunciation

Klemens is pronounced KLE-mens (/ˈklɛmɛns/).

Alive in 2025
1,524
Newborns 2025
39
National rank
#793
Next name day
23 November
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What Klemens means

Where Klemens comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Klemens comes from the Latin adjective clemens, meaning merciful and gentle. Romans used it as a cognomen, a family surname that praised a mild temper, and it passed into Christian use through the early bishops of Rome who bore it. The short meaning stays close to the root: łagodny, someone easy to forgive.

A boy named Klemens carries a word that once described emperors asked to show mercy. In Poland the name has a fixed spot on the calendar, its imieniny falling on the twenty-third of November. Read a class register from an older Polish school and you might find one Klemens among the Jans and Piotrs, a name never common yet never gone.

The feminine form is Klemensa, rarer still. Both keep the same promise of a gentle nature. The meaning in Polish is simply łagodny.

When Klemens celebrates name day

Klemens appears 8 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 15 March.

Next name day
23 November
Monday in 2026
Next one in 74 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Klemens

1 in 14007 men in Poland is named Klemens. 1,524 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #793 among male names.

People with the name Klemens 2019 → 2025
1,524 -233 since 2019
2020 1,725 -32
2021 1,665 -60
2022 1,610 -55
2023 1,594 -16
2024 1,562 -32
2025 1,524 -38

Klemens's popularity over time

39 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #396 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2004.

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39 newborns with the name Klemens in 2025
national rank #396 that year

Where Klemens is most popular

Klemens is most popular in Lesser Poland, 425% above the national average (107 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+3%). It is least common in Łódź and Lower Silesian, 82% and 79% below average respectively.

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Klemens as a middle name

Klemens is a first name for 1,524 men in Poland and a middle name for another 2,885, a 35/65 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 152nd, between Marceli (3,037) and Borys (2,838).

As a first name
1,524
As a middle name
2,885
first name 35% middle name 65%
Middle-name ranking men

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