Clay
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From a Middle English occupational name for a clay worker, or a habitational name, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”).
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Clay
- A surname.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- 1968 Patrick White, Clay, in The Burnt Ones, Penguin Books, page 114:
- When he was about five years old some kids asked Clay why his mother had called him that. And he did not know. But began to wonder.
- 1968 Patrick White, Clay, in The Burnt Ones, Penguin Books, page 114:
- A diminutive of the male given name Clayton.
