# Clements (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/clements/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 38,044 |
| US rank (2010) | 908 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 8,115 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.2% (37,237 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Clements in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 85% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 9.9% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Clements in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

## People named Clements

- Ron Clements, American animation director (born 1953)
- Frederic Clements, American ecologist (1874–1945)
- Bill Clements, American businessman, politician and former Governor of Texas (1917–2011)
- Jonathan Clements, British author and scriptwriter (born 1971)
- Earle Clements, American farmer and politician (1896-1985)
- Gabrielle D. Clements, American painter, etcher, and print maker (1858–1948)
- James Clements, American ornithologist, author and businessman (1927-2005)
- Mark Alwin Clements, Australian botanist (born 1949)
- Stanley Clements, American actor (1926–1981)
- Roy Clements, American film director and screenwriter (1877-1948)
- Vassar Clements, American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler (1928–2005)
- Scott Clements, American poker player

## Similar surnames

Clemons, Clement, Clemens, Clemente, Clemmons, Clementi, Coleman, Colman, Cloninger, Callanan, Cullinan, Colmenares.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.