Name: Clay

Gender: Male

Usage: Clay is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.

People having the name Clay are in general originating from United Kingdom, United States of America.

Name Meaning of Clay

Meaning: The meaning of the name Clay is: Clay, Immortal.

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Numerology Interpretation

Numerology of the first name Clay: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.

The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 5. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: adventurous, energetic, curious, visionary, magnetic, expansive.

Interpretation:
Qualities: Extroverted, Adventurous
Ruling planet: Mercury
Colors: White, Gray
Gemstones: Diamond

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Popularity of the Name

The name Clay is ranked on the 1,085th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.

We estimate that there are at least 480600 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.007% of the population. The name Clay has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.

The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Clay for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:

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History and Origin

Clay is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

Surname:

  • Adam Clay (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Alfred Borron Clay (1831–1868), artist
  • Bryan Clay (born 1980), gold medalist in the decathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
  • Cassius Clay, the original name of famed boxer Muhammad Ali
  • Cassius Marcellus Clay (politician) (1810–1903), American politician, abolitionist
  • Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr. (1912–1990), American painter and musician
  • Craig Clay (born 1992), English footballer
  • Edward Sneyd Clay (c. 1768–1846), British naval officer
  • Edward Clay (born 1945), British diplomat
  • Eric Clay (1922–2007), British rugby league referee
  • Frederic Clay (1838-1889), British composer
  • Grady Clay (1916–2013), American journalist
  • Henry Clay (1777–1852), leading American statesman and orator
  • James Clay (disambiguation), multiple people
  • John Clay (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Lacy Clay, U.S. House Representative
  • Lucius D. Clay (1897–1978), American general and military governor
  • Meilani Clay (born 1988), American poetry slam champion
  • Philippe Clay (1927–2007), French singer
  • Rudolph M. Clay (1936–2013), American politician

Given name:

  • Clay Aiken (born 1978), popular music singer
  • Clay Buchholz (born 1984), Major League Baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox
  • Clay Cook (born 1978), guitarist, keyboardist, mandolinist, steel guitarist, and vocalist in Zac Brown Band
  • Clay Hensley (born 1979), professional baseball player
  • Clay S. Jenkinson (born 1955), Rhodes Scholar and popular historical reenactor
  • Clay Regazzoni (1939–2006), Swiss racing car driver

Fictional characters:

  • Clay Bailey, a character in the animated television series Xiaolin Showdown
  • Clay Danvers,a character on Bitten
  • Clay Morrow, a character on Sons of Anarchy
  • Clay (Pokémon), a character of the Pokémon universe
  • Clay Simons, a character in Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned
  • Faceas Clay, an antagonist from the Strider Manga and NES Game
  • Clay Terran, a character from the series Ace Attorney

English: either a shortened form of Clayton or a transferred use of the independent surname, which was originally a local name for someone who lived on a patch of land whose soil was predominantly clay (Old English clǣg).

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