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Clayton
Pronounced /ˈkleɪtən/
Rank in 2024
#317
Born in 2024
1,081
Peak year
2000 · #151
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,081 boys were named Clayton, about 1 in every 1,587.
- It peaked in 2000 with 2,564 babies, ranked #151.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 138,209 boys have been named Clayton since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Clayton per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.9Greatest1901–27
- 0.6Silent1928–45
- 0.5Boomers1946–64
- 0.6Gen X1965–80
- 1.0Millennials1981–96
- 0.9Gen Z1997–12
- 0.7Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 14,306 babies, 0.86 per 1,000. Silent: 12,885 babies, 0.62 per 1,000. Boomers: 17,678 babies, 0.47 per 1,000. Gen X: 15,988 babies, 0.59 per 1,000. Millennials: 30,544 babies, 1.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 29,673 babies, 0.95 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 15,612 babies, 0.72 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Claytone, Cleyton, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure, settlement; town”). Analyzable as clay + -ton.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈkleɪtən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Clayton, CC BY-SA 4.0.