Last name: CLAYTON
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Last name frequency
CLAYTON : This last name is indexed 341,096 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
CLAYTON : English: habitational name from any of numerous places in Yorkshire Lancashire Staffordshire and Sussex named Clayton from Old English clǣg ‘clay’ + tūn ‘enclosure settlement’.
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