Clayton

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Etymology

From Middle English Claytone, Cleyton, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”) + Old English tūn (“enclosure, settlement; town”). Analyzable as clay +‎ -ton.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Clayton (countable and uncountable, plural Claytons)

  1. A placename
    1. A large number of places in the United States:
      1. A town, the county seat of Barbour County, Alabama; named for Georgia jurist and congressman Augustin Smith Clayton.
      2. A city in Contra Costa County, California; named for founder Joel Henry Clayton.
        Synonyms: Clayton's, Claytonville
      3. A town in Delaware; named for John M. Clayton.
      4. A city, the county seat of Rabun County, Georgia; named for Augustin Smith Clayton.
      5. A city in Idaho; named for early settler Clayton Smith.
      6. A town in Indiana; named for Kentucky statesman Henry Clay.
      7. A village in Illinois; named for Henry Clay.
      8. A city in Iowa.
      9. A city in Kansas; named for the clay in the area.
      10. A town in Louisiana.
      11. A village in Michigan.
      12. A city, the county seat of St. Louis County, Missouri; named for landowner Ralph Clayton.
      13. A borough of New Jersey.
      14. A town, the county seat of Union County, New Mexico; named for Clayton Dorsey, son of Arkansas statesman Stephen Wallace Dorsey.
      15. A town and village in New York; named for lawyer and politician John M. Clayton.
      16. A town in North Carolina.
      17. A city in Ohio; named for John Clayton, a War of 1812 veteran.
      18. A town in Oklahoma; named for the city in Missouri.
      19. A town in Crawford County, Wisconsin.
      20. A town and village in Polk County, Wisconsin; named for Clayton Rogers, the foreman of the town's sawmill.
      21. A town in Winnebago County, Wisconsin.
      22. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Clayton Township.
      23. Ellipsis of Clayton County.
    2. A few places in England:
      1. A suburb of the city of Manchester, Greater Manchester; named for the Clayton family which owned land nearby (OS grid ref SJ8898).
      2. A village in Clayton with Frickley parish, Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE4507).
      3. A suburb of Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.
      4. A village in Hassocks parish, Mid Sussex district, West Sussex (OS grid ref TQ2914).
      5. A suburban village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE1231). [1]
    3. A suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; named for proprietor John Hughes Clark.
  2. A habitational surname from Old English.
  3. A male given name transferred from the surname.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Translingual: Claytonia

References

  1. ^ Parish map (West Yorkshire)
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