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Clay?

58 replies

mothertobe789 · 14/06/2018 17:22

Honest opinions? Not Clayton! Just Clay :)

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AsAProfessionalFekko · 14/06/2018 17:23

Only if your surname is Potts.

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GreatDuckCookery6211 · 14/06/2018 17:27

No sorry.

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Flamingosnbears · 14/06/2018 17:28

Why not Clayton? It's more substantial if that's the name you like.

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mothertobe789 · 14/06/2018 17:37

Because my surname ends with "ton" so clayton wouldnt go.

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loobywench · 14/06/2018 17:39

I don't like it sorry

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PunkrockerGirl59 · 14/06/2018 17:39

Awful.

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ParellelReality · 14/06/2018 17:40

I love it and it would be one of my boy names.

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MrsApplepants · 14/06/2018 17:40

Well if he grows up to be a model you could call him Modelling Clay

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Blaablaablaa · 14/06/2018 17:40

It's a word not a name

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daisypond · 14/06/2018 17:41

No. Feet of clay? It doesn't have a good image. There must be something earthy that is better.

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MrsApplepants · 14/06/2018 17:45

I don’t like it by the way. Clay reminds me of mud and for me conjures up an image of a rather dull and slow witted, heavy little boy

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MikeUniformMike · 14/06/2018 17:47

Cassius Clay. I think it's ok for that reason but isn't there a Clay Rooney?

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WatcherintheRye · 14/06/2018 17:49

It wouldn't be on my list, but I think that even unusual names which make some people throw up their hands in horror, always become the only name you could ever imagine that particular child having!

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Flamingosnbears · 14/06/2018 17:58

That's a fair enough reason not to use it, if that's the name you like go for it regardless of what other people think.
Others you may like are:
Clement
Cole
Cai/Kai

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Fabricwitch · 14/06/2018 18:08

Love it and hope to use it some day! It's one of the only names my husband and I both like

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DeathByMascara · 14/06/2018 18:09

Dreadful. Spent the whole two series of 13 Reasons Why querying the sanity of parents who decided Clay would be a good name.

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StellaHeyStella · 14/06/2018 18:12

Oh dear op, Clay is a euphemism for faeces where I'm from, sorry.

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Clairetree1 · 14/06/2018 18:15

Clay and Cley are old pagan names, referring to the burying of a dead sibling face down as a sacrifice to the earth, and naming subsequent babies after mud

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TatianaLarina · 14/06/2018 18:17

Hell no.

It would be fine if you lived in Idaho.

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zeebeedee · 14/06/2018 20:43

Have you been watching Sons of Anarchy?

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DramaAlpaca · 14/06/2018 20:44

Nope. It's awful.

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AllyMcBeagle · 14/06/2018 20:45

It's a bit too American for me tbh.

Unless you do live in the US, in which case go ahead.

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thatsnotmynaame · 14/06/2018 20:47

13 reasons why was my first thought

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AgathaF · 14/06/2018 20:51

It's a bit Rooney.

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madeyemoodysmum · 14/06/2018 20:52

I do know it as a name as it is the name of a suspect in the shooting of JFK.
It's VERY unusual in UK so I think that would be thought of as weird.

However as a name I like it.

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