Clay
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English
Etymology
From a Middle English occupational name for a clay worker, or a habitational name, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Clay (countable and uncountable, plural Clays)
- A surname originating as an occupation.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- 1968, Patrick White, “Clay”, in The Burnt Ones, Penguin Books, page 114:
- When he was about five years old some kids asked Clay why his mother had called him that. And he did not know. But began to wonder.
- A diminutive of the male given name Clayton.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A city in Jefferson County, Alabama.
- A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California.
- A home rule city in Webster County, Kentucky, named after Henry Clay.
- An unincorporated community in Adair County, Missouri.
- A town in Onondaga County, New York, named after Henry Clay.
- An unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Jackson County, Ohio.
- A census-designated place in Burleson County, Texas.
- A town, the county seat of Clay County, West Virginia.
- A ghost town in the town of Komensky, Jackson County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Clay Township.
- Ellipsis of Clay County.