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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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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 from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Matthew Clay married Emily Aletha Arrowood Cynthia_Gretz 0
Holy Bible of Henry Clay and Lucretia Hart JennyLittle50 4
Searching for Robert E. Clay bncurtis101 0
Clay/Hodges information maxine06 0
"Sir" John CLAY - Came to America 1613 Bob Flynn 8
Katherine CLAY, b. 1917 gloria_Creel 0
Samuel and Rachel (Clay) LICHI -- 6Oth Anniversary woodsman1953 0
Gravestone: Vivian BURNS CLIFTON CLAY 1921 - 1997 t42swisher_dencotx 0
John Claye Rebel8954 0
Clay Book memawskids6 0
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