Name meaning & stats
Klayton
Klayton means “clay settlement”. 3,015 US babies since 1940, peak 2018.
What it means
“clay settlement”
Spelling of Clayton
In US birth records
Peak year: 2018
3,015 US babies were named Klayton between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Klayton (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 39 Claytons spell it Klayton
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2018)