Climent Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Search old registers for Climent and you will soon meet Clément too. The family name meaning is “Mild, merciful”, the same as for Clément.

Heraldry and the Climent name

There is no single Climent family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

Climent and Clément

Climent writes “i” in place of the “é” found in Clément, a common scribal difference. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Kliment, Clementz and Klement.

Spain's INE counts 8,245 residents with Climent as first surname and 8,076 with it as second. French birth records list 777 children named Climent between 1891 and 2000. For the full story, order the Climent surname pack.