Name meaning & stats
Clayton
Clayton means “clay settlement”. 115,086 US babies since 1940, peak 2000.
What it means
“clay settlement”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2000
115,086 US babies were named Clayton between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Clayton (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Clayton is the main spelling
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2000)