Clay (name)

Clay is both an English surname, and a masculine given name. It may be short for Clayton, and sometimes a nickname for Clarence.

As of 2014, 76.1% of all known bearers of the surname Clay were residents of the United States (frequency 1:5,846), 12.5% of England (1:5,460), 2.7% of Australia (1:10,816), 1.4% of Canada (1:31,264) and 1.2% of France (1:69,714).

In England, the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:5,460) in the following counties:

• 1. Nottinghamshire (1:1,287)
• 2. Derbyshire (1:2,238)
• 3. Lincolnshire (1:2,318)
• 4. Staffordshire (1:2,357)
• 5. Leicestershire (1:2,705)
• 6. Warwickshire (1:2,752)
• 7. West Yorkshire (1:2,838)
• 8. Herefordshire (1:2,856)
• 9. South Yorkshire (1:3,014)
• 10. Shropshire (1:3,271)
• 11. North Yorkshire (1:4,378)
• 12. Cornwall (1:4,867)
• 13. Hertfordshire (1:5,093)
• 14. Cambridgeshire (1:5,301)

In the United States, the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:5,846) in the following states:^[1]

• 1. West Virginia (1:1,501)
• 2. Mississippi (1:1,690)
• 3. Georgia (1:2,391)
• 4. Arkansas (1:2,794)
• 5. Alabama (1:2,876)
• 6. Missouri (1:3,086)
• 7. Kentucky (1:3,223)
• 8. Louisiana (1:3,418)
• 9. Oklahoma (1:3,507)
• 10. Tennessee (1:3,769)
• 11. Ohio (1:4,169)
• 12. Virginia (1:4,296)
• 13. Texas (1:4,473)
• 14. North Carolina (1:4,705)
• 15. Illinois (1:5,138)
• 16. Michigan (1:5,431)
• 17. Maryland (1:5,696)
• 18. Indiana (1:5,723)

• Clay (surname)

• Clay Aiken (born 1978), American popular music singer
• Clay Buchholz (born 1984), Major League Baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
• Clay Calvert American lawyer and academic
• Clay Martin Croker (1962–2016), American voice actor and animator
• Clay Dalrymple (born 1936), former American professional baseball player
• Clay Dreslough, American video game designer
• Clay Guida (born 1981), American mixed martial artist
• Clay Hensley (born 1979), American baseball player
• Clay Higgins (born 1961), American politician
• Clay Jenkins (born 1964), American politician and lawyer
• Clay S. Jenkinson (born 1955), American Rhodes Scholar and popular historical re-enactor
• Clay Johnston (academic), American neurologist and university administrator
• Clay Johnston (American football) (born 1996), American football player
• Clay Kaytis (born 1973), American animator and director
• Clay Matthews Sr. (1928–2017), American football player
• Clay Matthews Jr. (born 1956), American football player, son of the above
• Clay Matthews III (born 1986), American football player, son of the above
• Clay Riley, American politician
• Clay Milner Russell (born 1999), English actor
• Clay V. Spear (c. 1914 – 1974), American associate justice of the Idaho Supreme Court
• Clay Spohn (1898–1977) American visual artist, educator
• Clay Sweeting, Bahamian politician
• Clay Travis (born 1979), American sports journalist
• Clay Walker (born 1969), American country music singer
• Clay Webb (born 2000), American football player
• Clay (born 1999), pseudonym Dream, American YouTuber and Minecraft gamer

• Clay Cook (born 1978), American guitarist, keyboardist, mandolinist, steel guitarist, and vocalist in Zac Brown Band
• Clay Regazzoni (1939–2006), Swiss racing car driver

• Clay, the Mudwing from Wings of Fire (novel series)
• Clay, the first host of Playhouse Disney
• Clay (Pokémon), in the Pokémon universe
• Clay Bailey, in the American animated television series Xiaolin Showdown
• Clay Calloway, from the film Sing 2
• Clay Davis, in American TV series The Wire
• Clay Jensen, in the novel and Netflix series 13 Reasons Why
• Clay Kaczmarek, from the Assassin's Creed games
• Clay Moorington, a character in Nexo Knights
• Clay Morrow, from American TV series Sons of Anarchy
• Clay Puppington, a main character from the American TV series Moral Orel
• Clay Simons, in the game Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned
• Clay Terran, from the game series Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies
• Caduceus Clay, from the American web series Critical Role
• Faceas Clay, an antagonist from the Strider Hiryu manga and NES game
• Clay, a villager from the Nintendo Switch game “Animal Crossing”
• Lincoln Clay, from the video game Mafia III

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