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Clayton

Proper noun

Meaning

A male given name transferred from the surname.

A habitational surname from Old English.

A town in North Carolina.

A city in Iowa.

A village in Michigan.

A town in Winnebago County, Wisconsin.

A town in Louisiana.

A placename
A large number of places in the United States:
A town, the county seat of Barbour County, Alabama; named for Georgia jurist and congressman Augustin Smith Clayton.

A city in Contra Costa County, California; named for founder Joel Henry Clayton.
Synonyms: Clayton's, Claytonville

A town in Delaware; named for John M. Clayton.

A city, the county seat of Rabun County, Georgia; named for Augustin Smith Clayton.

A city in Idaho; named for early settler Clayton Smith.

A town in Indiana; named for Kentucky statesman Henry Clay.

A village in Illinois; named for Henry Clay.

A city in Kansas; named for the clay in the area.

A city, the county seat of St. Louis County, Missouri; named for landowner Ralph Clayton.

A borough of New Jersey.

A town, the county seat of Union County, New Mexico; named for Clayton Dorsey, son of Arkansas statesman Stephen Wallace Dorsey.

A town and village in New York; named for lawyer and politician John M. Clayton.

A city in Ohio; named for John Clayton, a War of 1812 veteran.

A town in Oklahoma; named for the city in Missouri.

A town in Crawford County, Wisconsin.

A town and village in Polk County, Wisconsin; named for Clayton Rogers, the foreman of the town's sawmill.

A number of townships in the United States, listed under Clayton Township.

Ellipsis of Clayton County.

A few places in England, United Kingdom:
A suburb of the city of Manchester, Greater Manchester; named for the Clayton family which owned land nearby (OS grid ref SJ8898).

A village in Clayton with Frickley parish, Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE4507).

A suburb of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.

A village in Hassocks parish, Mid Sussex district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ2914).

A suburban village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE1231).

A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; named for proprietor John Hughes Clark.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

I had a garter snake named Clayton. Noel Fielding

God help me if I ever injure my back," Clayton quipped. "God help you if you ever turn it," Whitney snapped, "for there'll surely be some heartbroken papa or cuckolded husband ready with a knife--if I don't murder you first. Judith McNaught

The racist effects of Davis-Bacon are no mere coincidence. In fact, many original supporters of Davis-Bacon, such as Representative Clayton Allgood, bragged about supporting Davis-Bacon as a means of keeping cheap colored labor out of the construction industry. Ron Paul

After General Manager Walt Jocketty acquired shortstop Royce Clayton during the offseason, La Russa emphasized an open competition for the spot that would give the Cardinals the best chance to win. Source: Internet

A Clayton man was arrested this week for allegedly driving drunk on Highway 70 near Wilson’s Mills. Source: Internet

A protester spray paints "---- 12" — an anti-police phrase — on the bricks in front of the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial in Duluth on Saturday evening. Source: Internet

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