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Claytor Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Claytor Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Claytor families
 38 - 73  13 - 37 |
 1 - 12  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Claytor families
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9 - 15 4 - 8 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Claytor Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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