First name origin & meaning: Latin: Merciful First name variations: Clemens, Clemmons, Clemon, Clem, Clemendo, Clemente, Clementino, Clementius, Clemmie, Clemmy, Klemens, Klement, Klementos, Kliment, Clement Last name origin & meaning: English: patronymic from the personal name Clement. As an
American family name, this form has absorbed cognates in other
continental European languages. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges
1988.)
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