Last Name CLAY

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Meaning	Local: At the clay, from residence by a clayey spot. Local: A town of France in Seine. A lake on the isle of Lewis, Scotland. 'Clee,' hills in Wales. 'Cle,' lefthanded, a place lying to the left, in relation to another place. 'Cledh,' 'cloid,' and 'cladd,' in the Gaelic, Welsh, and British, signify a ditch, a trench, a wall; 'cladh,' a church-yard; 'cledd,' Welsh, a sword; Gaelic, 'claiheamb,' from which we have 'Claymore,' a large sword. The same word in Welsh and Gaelic that signifies a river is often applied to a sword, from their resemblance in glittering brightness.

Origin	English, Jewish, Native American, Irish, Belgian

Rank	677 (2000 US census)	512 (1990 US census)

Count	46,264 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

55.4%, or 25630 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
39.83%, or 18427 total occurrences, as black,
0.32%, or 148 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.95%, or 440 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
2.07%, or 958 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.42%, or 657 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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