Clay

English word name; diminutive of Clayton
"boundary with clover"

Clay Origin and Meaning

The name Clay is a boy's name of English origin.

Clay is a rich, earthy one-syllable name with a southern-inflected handsome-rogue image, featured on soap operas and reality TV. Its longer forms are Clayton and Clayborne.

There have been TV characters called Clay on The Wire, Sons of Anarchy, and 13 Reasons Why, and the name's most prominent recent bearers are American Idol Clay (born Clayton) Aiken and Green Bay Packer linebacker Clay (born William Clay) Matthews.

# 580 in the US

Clay Rank in US Top 1000

# 521 on Nameberry

Clay Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

Clay Popularity

Famous People Named Clay

  • Clayton Allen "Clay" Hensley
    American baseball player
  • Clayton Holmes "Clay" Aiken
    American pop singer, TV personality, and politician
  • (William) Clay Matthews Jr. and III
    American NFL football players
  • Ernest Clayton "Clay" Walker
    American country music singer
  • Clay Daniel Buchholz
    American baseball player
  • Douglas "Clay" Cook
    American country musician of the Zac Brown Band
  • Gianclaudio Giuseppe "Clay" Regazzoni
    Swiss racing driver
  • Clay Greenbush
    American actor
  • Clay Honeycutt
    contestant on "Big Brother" season 17
  • Clay Hart
    American singer/guitarist from "The Lawrence Welk Show"
  • Clay Clement (born Claudius Geiger)
    American stage, film, and TV actor
  • Clay
    Minecraft YouTube personality who goes by “Dream”

Clay in Pop Culture

  • Clayton "Clay" Evans
    character on TV's "One Tree Hill"
  • Clay Bailey
    character in animated series "Xiaolin Showdown"
  • Clay Morrow
    character on TV's "Sons of Anarchy"
  • Caduceus Clay
    character in Critical Role
  • Clay Simons
    character in video game "Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned"
  • Clay Jensen
    main character in "13 Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
  • Clay
    main character in Bret Easton Ellis' "Less Than Zero"
  • Clay Clemmens
    character on TV's "The New Normal"
  • Clay
    Gym Leader in the Pokemon video games
  • Clay
    character in anime "Soul Eater Not!'
  • Clay Terran
    character in video game series "Ace Attorney"
  • Clay Puffington
    main character in animated series "Moral Orel"
  • Clay Haas
    character in TV's "Quantico"
  • Clay Kaczmarek
    character in video game series "Assassin's Creed"
  • Clay
    dragon character in children's literature series Wings Of Fire