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Clay?

58 replies

mothertobe789 · 14/06/2018 17:22

Honest opinions? Not Clayton! Just Clay :)

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StillNoClue · 14/06/2018 22:08

It's really not a name.

It works if your child is the son of a football player. It doesn't work if your parents are anywhere remotely normal.

gracielacey · 14/06/2018 21:38

Very American - one of the characters in that Netflix suicide school drama Thirteen Reasons Why is called Clay.

Would be a very strange name in the UK.

CloudCaptain · 14/06/2018 20:58

How about Flint, Oakley, Brock,

sexnotgender · 14/06/2018 20:55

Awful.

DwangelaForever · 14/06/2018 20:55

13 reasons why inspired?

CloudCaptain · 14/06/2018 20:54

Aw, I was gonna say I like it, but the pagan meaning would put me off.

FurryDogMother · 14/06/2018 20:53

I once knew a guy called Barclay. Suited him, but he was in his 50s - he'd obviously weathered the storms of being called Banksie etc. by then.

madeyemoodysmum · 14/06/2018 20:53

I'd spell it Cley

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.

AgathaF · 14/06/2018 20:51

It's a bit Rooney.

thatsnotmynaame · 14/06/2018 20:47

13 reasons why was my first thought

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.

DramaAlpaca · 14/06/2018 20:44

Nope. It's awful.

zeebeedee · 14/06/2018 20:43

Have you been watching Sons of Anarchy?

TatianaLarina · 14/06/2018 18:17

Hell no.

It would be fine if you lived in Idaho.

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

StellaHeyStella · 14/06/2018 18:12

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

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.

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

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

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!

MikeUniformMike · 14/06/2018 17:47

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

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

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.

Blaablaablaa · 14/06/2018 17:40

It's a word not a name

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