Clementine

Where Clementine comes from

From French Clémentine, from Latin Clēmentīna, from Clēmens (genitive Clēmentis), from clēmens (“merciful”). By surface analysis, Clement + -ine (feminine suffix). Doublet of Clementina.
— Wiktionary's entry for Clementine
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #375 among girls — 19 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #360
    24 babies named Clementine — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1885
    Clementine Churchill born
    Wife of Winston Churchill and life peer
  4. 1967
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,053.
  5. 1979
    Clementine Ford born
    American actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin; feminine of Clement.
Namesakes
  • Clementine Churchill · Wife of Winston Churchill and life peer, 1885–1977
  • Clementine Ford · American actress, born 1979
  • Clementine Ford · Australian feminist writer, broadcaster and public speaker, born 1981
  • Clementine Plessner · Austrian actress, 1855–1943
  • Clementine Abel · German writer, 1826–1905

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.