Given name
Claytin
“from the town settled on clay”
Claytin is a variant of Clayton. One English interpretation is “from the town settled on clay.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Claytin is a variant of Clayton. One English interpretation is “from the town settled on clay.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Claytin is a variant of Clayton. An origin associated with Clayton is English.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Claytin is a variant of Clayton. The history of Clayton gives this family its wider story. Clayton’s naming history includes the use of a family name as a given name.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Claytin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 57
- 57 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2018. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2008.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Claytin’s family of names
Claytin has a related form in Clayton.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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