Clayton
At the 2020 census, 53,875 Americans bore the surname Clayton — 611th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,548.
By the numbers
- People
- 53,875
- Rank
- 611th
- How common
- 1 in 5,548
- Per 100,000
- 18.0
Where the name comes from
Origin Old English
From Middle English Claytone, Cleyton, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure, settlement; town”). Analyzable as.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Clayton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Clayton
- Adam Clayton (born 1960)Irish rock musician, bass player of U2
- Garrett Clayton (born 1991)American actor, singer and dancer
- John M. Clayton (1796–1856)American lawyer and politician
- Jack Clayton (1921–1995)British film director and producer
- Jamie Clayton (born 1978)American actress and model
- Ronnie Clayton (1934–2010)English footballer
- Ethel Clayton (1882–1966)American actress
- Adam Clayton (born 1989)English association football player
People named Clayton with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Clayton
Also a first name
Clayton has been given to 139,954 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2000. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.