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Clay is both an English surname, a masculine given name, often short for Clayton, and a nickname. ... Clay, a villager from the Nintendo Switch game ...
Clay settlement: Other names; Derivative(s) Clay, Cleiton: Clayton is both an English surname and a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:
Ascot, Didcot, Draycott in the Clay, Swadlincote [25] suffix Craig, crag, creag Bry, SG, I A jutting rock. Craigavon, Creag Meagaidh, Pen y Graig, Ard Crags: This root is common to all the Celtic languages. croft OE An enclosed field [26] Seacroft, Ryecroft, Crofton, Wheatcroft: The term is also traditionally used in Scotland as a land ...
Clay Aiken, American singer-songwriter, was born Clayton Holmes Grissom. Estranged from his birth father, Vernon Grissom, and with the permission of his mother (Faye Aiken Grissom) and his maternal grandfather (Alvis Aiken), Clay legally changed his surname from Grissom to Aiken at the age of 19. [11]
Henry Clay, Jr. owned an enslaved man named John Henry Clay among whose 20th century descendants were the boxer Muhammad Ali and his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr.: Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., grandson of John Henry Clay, named for the abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay.
A clay tablet detailing a trade transaction contains one of the first examples of rebus writing. [2] It reads "28,086 [a] measures barley 37 months Kushim." This may be interpreted as having been signed by "Kushim." [1] [4] As of 1993, Kushim's name was known to appear in 18 separate Proto-cuneiform clay tablets from the period. [5] [6]
After George Washington, [104] whose surname was in turn derived from the town of Washington in historic County Durham, England. [105] [106] The etymology of the town's name is disputed, but agreed to be ultimately Old English. West Virginia: September 1, 1831: Latin: Virginia
Clay Aiken was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina.As a young boy, Aiken sang in the Raleigh Boychoir; and, as a teenager, he sang in school choirs, church choir, musicals and local theatre productions. [19]