Entry № 2105 · Latin origin

Clementine Clementine — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ KLEM-en-tine /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Merciful, mild"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Latin)

A name that means "merciful, mild".

Clementine is the feminine of Clement — from the Latin clemens, meaning "merciful," "mild," or "gentle." Several popes have borne the masculine name Clement. The small citrus fruit (the clementine, a type of mandarin orange) was named after Brother Clément, a French monk in Algeria who developed it in 1902.

Clementine has been rising rapidly in the U.S.

Merciful. The fruit and the name, both gentle.

The name in its native script.

Clementine
Transliteration
Clementine
Pronunciation
/ ˈklɛm.ən.taɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Clementine stands.

Clementine 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.

Clementines before her.

Real people
Clementine Churchill
Wife of Winston Churchill.
1885 – 1977
Clémentine Beauvais
French author.
born 1989
In fiction
Clementine Kruczynski
Heroine of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
2004 film

Names connected to Clementine.

The number behind Clementine.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Clementine reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.