Clay

See also clay

English

Etymology

From a Middle English occupational name for a clay worker, or a habitational name, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kleɪ/
• Rhymes: -eɪ

Proper noun

Clay

1. A surname.
2. 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.

3. A diminutive of the male given name Clayton.