The Kelemen Family Name

Kelemen is a branch of the Clément name tree. Taken at its root, Kelemen points to “Mild, merciful”.

• Before spelling was fixed, Clément was also written Kelemen.
• Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists.
• Other spellings include Klement, Kliment and Clementz.
• In the 2010 US Census, 1,344 Americans gave Kelemen as their last name (rank 19,955). That puts it inside the top 25,000 US surnames.

Arms associated with the name

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