English: habitational name from any of various places named
Claydon, for example in Suffolk, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire,
from Old English cl?gig ‘clayey’ + dun
‘hill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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