The claytor Surname
claytor Name Meaning and History
- English: possibly a habitational name from Cleator in Cumbria, named from Old English cl?te ‘burdock’ + Old Norse erg ‘hill pasture’.
- Possibly an Americanized spelling of North German Klöter, a variant of Klüter, a humorous nickname for a farmer, from Middle Low German klut(e) ‘clod’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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