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Clayton

Earth

Usually a boy's name

Meaning
A place name, Old English for 'settlement on clay' Likely
Origin
English surname, from a place name
Element: Earth

linked with: clay

BaZi is a centuries-old Chinese way of reading the moment you were born, and naming with it sorts names by the five elements.

Inspired by Chinese naming: the element comes from the name's meaning, never from its letters or sound.

Popularity

US 2025: #300 (boys) · England and Wales 2025: #702

Popularity: US Social Security Administration 2025; Office for National Statistics 2025, England and Wales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Sources

Names with a similar meaning

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Related in meaning in Chinese

Source: Unicode Unihan

Chinese middle names linked to this meaning