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Clayton

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Boy · Old English place name

Clayton

Say it: KLAY-tun

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Meaning

From an English surname and place name, Old English clæg 'clay' and tun 'settlement'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Used in the US since the 1800s and popular in the 1970s and 1990s.

Its wave through time

Timeless: in steady use for over a century

In the United States

00.511.518801900192019401960198020002020Peak 2000per 1,000 babies of that sex
  • 134,174 babies given this name since 1880
  • At its height in 2000, about 1 in 766 boys
  • 1,163 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
  2. The Modern Age1880 to today

Used by

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Where this comes from

  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
  • National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.