Entry № 2102 · English origin

Clemency Clemency — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KLEM-en-see /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Mercy, mildness"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Traditional

A name that means "mercy, mildness".

Clemency means mercy and gentleness, from the Latin clementia — a soft, forgiving virtue.

Tender and dignified, it is a quietly beautiful old virtue name.

Mercy, mildness — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Clemency
Transliteration
Clemency
Pronunciation
/ ˈklɛ.men.si /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Clemency stands.

Clemency does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Clemencys before her.

Real people

In fiction

Names connected to Clemency.

The number behind Clemency.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Clemency reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.