MEANING & HISTORY
What does Jose Ma. Clemente mean?
Jose is explicitly recorded as the unaccented José form used in the Americas and Philippines. Its Joseph family comes from Hebrew Yosef, understood as may he add.
A UNAM abbreviation table explicitly records María as Ma. This supplies a conditional abbreviation reading while preserving the exact period-bearing source form; Maria belongs to the Miriam family with an unresolved ultimate etymology. Clemente is the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese Clemens form.
The Latin name carries merciful or gentle vocabulary, independently of any claim about the bearer’s temperament.
Pronunciation & syllables
A dictionary pronunciation or syllable division has not been verified for this exact spelling. Use the synthetic reading as a starting point and confirm the intended pronunciation with the family.
Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗The parts of this recorded form
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THE RECORDED SPELLING
Find Jose Ma. Clemente in the sources
Public-record evidence
OpenHalalan · COMELEC · 2001
Given-name field in the source
JOSE MA. CLEMENTECSV record 17,407 (header counted as record 1)
The source transcribes elected-candidate lists. The record number locates the quoted given-name field.
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Jose Ma. Clemente in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Jose Ma. Clemente
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Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Behind the Name: Jose (opens in a new tab)
Exact form and documented name relationship.
- Behind the Name: joseph (opens in a new tab)
Independently consulted linked-name formation and lexical root.
- Sergio Lemus López (2010), UNAM, Appendix B (opens in a new tab)
Explicit María → Ma. abbreviation table; conditional reading, exact documentary form retained.
- Behind the Name: mary (opens in a new tab)
Independently consulted linked-name formation and lexical root.
- Behind the Name: Clemente (opens in a new tab)
Exact form and documented name relationship.
- Behind the Name: clement (opens in a new tab)
Independently consulted linked-name formation and lexical root.