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clement Name Meaning and History

English, French, and Dutch: from the Latin personal name Clemens meaning ‘merciful’ (genitive Clementis). This achieved popularity firstly through having been borne by an early saint who was a disciple of St. Paul, and later because it was selected as a symbolic name by a number of early popes. There has also been some confusion with the personal name Clemence (Latin Clementia, meaning ‘mercy’, an abstract noun derived from the adjective; in part a masculine name from Latin Clementius, a later derivative of Clemens). As an American family name, Clement has absorbed cognates in other continental European languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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clement Family Facts

Distribution of clement Families in the US in 1920
Number of clement families
 178-353
 60-177		 1-59
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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