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Clayton Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the numerous places, in
Yorkshire, Lancashire, Staffordshire, and elsewhere, named Clayton,
from Old English cl?g ‘clay’ + tun ‘enclosure’,
‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Clayton Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Clayton families
 254 - 505  85 - 253 |
 1 - 84  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Clayton families
|
2,269 - 4,535 757 - 2,268 |
1 - 756 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Clayton families
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36 - 70 13 - 35 |
1 - 12 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Clayton Family Origin
Clayton Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Clayton
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Clayton Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Clayton census records
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