Given name & surname
Klemens
“a merciful man”
Klemens is used as a given name and a surname. One Latin interpretation is “a merciful man.”
Original LatinClemens
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “a merciful man.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
Klemens’s family of names
In Polish usage, Klemens has a diminutive in KLIMA. Klemens shares a linguistic root with Clement. In Polish usage, Klemens has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Clemente.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Klemens has relatives in 18 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Klemens comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Clementvariant · German, English
- Clemensvariant · German, Latin
- Klimadiminutive · Polish
- Klimensvariant
- Klimentvariant · Czech
- Klementvariant · Slovak, Czech
- Klemenisvariant
- Klimekpet form · Polish
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 17
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Klemens
- Klemens von MetternichAustrian diplomat, foreign minister and Chancellor (1773–1859)
- Klemens JanickiPolish writer1516–1543
- Klemens MurańkaPolish ski jumperborn 1994
- Klemens GroßimlinghausGerman road bicycle racer1941–1991
- Klemens BachledaPolish mountain guide1849–1910
- Klemens JunoszaPolish writer (1849-1898)
- Klemens Mielczarekactor (1920-2006)
- Clemence (Kushch)metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimea of the Orthodox Church of Ukraineborn 1969
- KlemensUkrainian Eastern Orthodox priestborn 1977
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