The English name Clementine was taken from the French Clémentine. Both names go back to the Latin name Clemens meaning ‘merciful’ or ‘gentle’.
Clementine is a first name for girls.
The name Clementine isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Clementine ranks 654. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Clementine. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Clementine.
The English name Clementine was taken from the French Clémentine. Both names go back to the Latin name Clemens meaning ‘merciful’ or ‘gentle’.
Around 2010, the English spelling... of Clementine was trending in France for a short time.
Clementine is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1994, where the name Clementine was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Clementine and were born in the USA in 1994, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Clementine even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1882, it ranked on position 352 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Clementine was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Clementine has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 542 times and thus landed on position 508 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 542 girls with the name Clementine, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter C is a frequent initial letter for girls' names. This is because 6.0% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M.
With ten letters, the name Clementine is obviously a particularly long first name used in the U.S.: only 1.8% of all common first names have exactly ten letters. 98% of all first names are shorter, while only 0.6% of all boys’ and girls’ names need more than ten letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.0% of all girls' names that begin with a C, this first letter is much more common than the average of all letters. And which girls’ name beginning with C do you think is the most common in the US? The answer is... Carol.
If your name is Clementine and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Clementine, you can simply say:
Cat
Lion
Elephant
Mouse
Elephant
Nut
Tiger
Igloo
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Clementine
Clementine
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Clementine sounds like this:
