as a Last Name
- 61,490
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Clayton
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from any of the numerous places, in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, and elsewhere, named Clayton, from Old English clǣg ‘clay’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
| 536th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 61,490
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Clayton per capita
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