Clement

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Also Piedmontese: https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%B2m_piemont%C3%A8is#cite_note-Congr%C3%A8s-2
https://pms.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=Clement&title=Special:Ricerca&ns0=1
https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proverbi_piemont%C3%A8is

This is more of a question than a comment. Is it possible the name Clement fell out of use due to the popularity of the orange (Clementine)? That’s the only correlation I can think of.

I feel like the folk song "Oh My Darling, Clementine" probably also contributed to the downfall of this name. Another potentially negative association for some would’ve been Clement Vallandigham, who was a controversial politician to pretty much every side during the Civil War period.

I think Clement is a beautiful name. It is strong, handsome, and elegant. The meaning is gorgeous, and I love "Clem" for a nickname. This would be a fitting name for a lawyer. (P.S. Also, you know it's a good name when it's been borne by 14 popes.)

I like the nickname Clem!

It looks like someone accidentally added an additional letter to "cement".

I like it, though it is an adjective name. It makes me think of gentle west winds. In Thomas Hardy's novels, there is a guy who bears this name whose nickname is Clym rather than Clem.

Also Provençal: https://ieo-oc.org/spip.php?page=article&id_article=290 --- Source: Institut d'Estudis Occitans

I like this name, especially its variant Clemency.

British-born meteorologist Clement Lindley Wragge started the convention of naming tropical cyclones and hurricanes while working in New Zealand in 1887. Ironically, his own name has yet to make an appearance on any name lists, but he surely deserves a shoutout!

Very intelligent-sounding.

Also Romanian: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_P%C4%83limaru
https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_al_Alexandriei
https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Modoran

Walter Clements from the meme, it's the surname but I assume you see where I'm coming from.

Sounds a bit too much like a surname for me.

Clement was a faithful Christian who fought side by side with the apostle Paul, presumably at Philippi, for the sake of "the good news." (Philippians 4:3).

I like this name for a man and Clementine for a woman. "Oh my darlin, oh my darlin, oh my darlin Clementine..."

It's a very famous surname in Albania and Kosova. It is spelled KELMENDI and the origin goes back centuries. These days a lot of people have it as their surname but the majority use other surnames. Most recent famous person was late president Rugova and he was a Kelmendi. From my family tree within the last one hundred years only one family kept its surname Kelmendi. I and my two children we are in discussion to go back to the Kelmendi surname as we feel we are from the Kelmendi clan in Kosova.

The name Clement was given to 44 boys born in the US in 2015.

Clemont is a character in Pokémon the Series: XY. (His name is spelled this way to refer to a lemon battery as he is an inventor and specializes in Electric-type Pokémon.)

Makes me think of cement.

I think of cement too.

Pope Clement VII and Pope Clement XIV.

Clement Moore wrote the poem "A Visit from St. Nick," perhaps better known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."

Clement Hurd, illustrator of the children's book Goodnight Moon, among others, was a bearer of this name.

Sir Clement Willoughby, a character from Frances Burney's novel "Evelina".

The eponym of Thomas Hardy's haunting tragedy "The Return of the Native" bears this name, though he's often referred to as Clym.

It makes me think of clementines, and it's really different (I've never heard of it before). But I guess it is ok.

The clementine is one of the most popular hybrids of the tangerine. It is the hybrid created in 1902 by the French Priest Clement Rodier. He obtained the hybrid crossing a tangerine with a sour orange.

Famous bearer is Clement Attlee, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951.