The CLAYTON surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	54,875	548	0.02	203
United States (1880 census)	12,618	466	0.025	252
Change since 1880	+42257	-82	-0.005	-49
Other Countries
Australia	3,287	459	0.02	201
United Kingdom	19,912	278	0.043	434

Top States for CLAYTON by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	4,611	561	0.022	221
California	3,870	852	0.011	114
Florida	3,633	536	0.023	227
North Carolina	3,568	309	0.044	443
Georgia	2,477	415	0.030	303
Top States for CLAYTON by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Mississippi	1,506	281	0.053	529
North Carolina	3,568	309	0.044	443
Tennessee	2,336	378	0.041	411
Alabama	1,822	392	0.041	410
Arkansas	1,025	328	0.038	383

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CLAYTON live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CLAYTON represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CLAYTON in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CLAYTON by picking someone at random in Mississippi than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CLAYTON

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CLAYTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CLAYTON surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CLAYTON in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	977	1.78
White (Hispanic)	741	1.35
Native American/Alaskan	274	0.5
Asian/Pacific	209	0.38
White (Caucasian)	39,203	71.44
Black/African American	13,477	24.56

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CLAYTON surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to CLAYTON

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CLAYTON.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.