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clay Name Meaning and History

  1. English: from Old English cl?g ‘clay’, applied as a topographic name for someone who lived in an area of clay soil or as a metonymic occupational name for a worker in a clay pit (see Clayman).
  2. Americanized spelling of German Klee.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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clay Family Facts

Distribution of clay Families in the US in 1920
Number of clay families
 258-514
 87-257		 1-86
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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