Clay (name)
Clay is both an English surname and a given name, often short for Clayton. People with the name. Geographical distribution. As of 2014, 76.1% of all known bearers of the surname "Clay" were residents of the United States (frequency 1:5,846), 12.5% of England (1:5,460), 2.7% of Australia (1:10,816), 1.4% of Canada (1:31,264) and 1.2% of France (1:69,714). In England, the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:5,460) in the following counties: In the United States, the frequency of the surname was higher than average (1:5,846) in the following states: