Clayten
Boy · KLAY-ton · English
Clayten is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “settlement on clay”. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).
What does Clayten mean?
English: spelling of Clayton; English place name and surname
“settlement on clay”
A surname from several English villages called Clayton, in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Sussex and elsewhere.
- Say it
- KLAY-ton
Meaning borrowed from Clayton. More on Wiktionary.
Is Clayten a girl's or a boy's name?
Clayten is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Clayten in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,675among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 170,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Clayten, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,548th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 18 boys. It first appears in the records in 1996.
2025 had more boys named Clayten than any year since 2015.
Half of all the boys named Clayten in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,235 boys in the US were given Clayten or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #290, up from #7,675 for this spelling alone.
Clayten in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,675 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,141 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,548 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 5 | #12,150 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,061 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,124 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,722 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,300 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,250 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,475 |
| 2009 | 12 | #6,798 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,063 |
| 2007 | 15 | #5,658 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,090 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,029 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,132 |
| 2003 | 11 | #6,251 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,636 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,006 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,290 |
| 1999 | 7 | #7,867 |
| 1998 | 8 | #6,837 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 6 | #7,964 |
Nicknames for Clayten
- Clay 43 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Clayten
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Other spellings of Clayten
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