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Clayton??

48 replies

Mummabear12 · 09/02/2014 17:29

What do you think don't be too mean :) x

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NickNacks · 09/02/2014 17:31

I don't like it at all, I'm sorry.

Rommell · 09/02/2014 17:33

I've never heard it (as a first name) before but now I am hearing it I think it's great. Puts me in mind of the nice kind of preppy all-American schoolboy who gets on with everyone and is good at sport but not an arsehole about it. A name for a winner, in short.

Bluestocking · 09/02/2014 17:33

Dreadful beyond belief. And that's pulling my punches.

500internalerror · 09/02/2014 17:36

Clayton Farlow; was he out of Dynasty or Dallas?

alemci · 09/02/2014 17:38

Clayton Farlow in Dallas - Howard Keel. Makes me think of a grey old man or an American. sorry hope I don't sound mean :)

WhereBeThatBlackbirdTo · 09/02/2014 17:38

I know of a few grown-up Claytons.

One prefers to go by the name Clayt because he hates his name.

MmeMorrible · 09/02/2014 17:39

I used to work with a Clayton. I wouldn't use it as name, he was mercilessly ribbed for it by his colleagues in what was quite a formal working environment, and I can only imagine it must gave been much worse at school.

cece · 09/02/2014 17:39

Nice as a last name. Not great as a first name.

Onesleeptillwembley · 09/02/2014 17:39

Don't think it'd be easy to be too mean. It's truly bloody awful. And a small village on the outskirts of Bradford.

lljkk · 09/02/2014 17:41

I met a baby Clayton about 7 yrs ago & I didn't like it then, either (sorry). I keep thinking of the annoying hunter in the modern Disney Tarzan movie.

Mummabear12 · 09/02/2014 17:42

Thanks Rommel x

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Sammie101 · 09/02/2014 17:48

I don't like it at all, but who cares what other people think, it's what you and your partner think that matters!

rusmum · 09/02/2014 17:50

I know a clay and a Clayton both under -

honeybeeridiculous · 09/02/2014 17:56

I once worked with a Clayon, handsome chap but sorry, don't like the name

Bunbaker · 09/02/2014 18:10

As long as your surname isn't West.
Here

Pointeshoes · 09/02/2014 18:12

' Huh huh. ' . . .reminds me of the Simpsons character cleatus.

Mummabear12 · 09/02/2014 18:13

Haha no it definitely isn't west x

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NadiaWadia · 10/02/2014 04:29

Why? Clayton is a middle aged American blue collar worker or postman (mailman?)

There is nothing nice about it at all. Please give your son a proper name.

Madamecastafiore · 10/02/2014 04:43

Having to stuck my fist in my mouth not to be really mean.

It's vile.

Morgause · 10/02/2014 05:47

Claytons are often the stupid ones in American films. Hate it.

AbouttoCrack · 10/02/2014 06:11

Clayton Talbot. Bullied my brother at preschool 40 years ago. Name still haunts. Hate it.

aGirlDownUnder1 · 10/02/2014 06:14

Sorry I don't like it. Their was a murderer called Clayton where I live and it's put me off ever since.

OneMoreThenNoMore · 10/02/2014 06:20

I don't like it, sorry.

RoadToTuapeka · 10/02/2014 06:37

I really really don't like it. I went to school with a Clayton in the 80s, nice guy but I hated the name then too. Puts me in mind of a really stupid lumbering redneck.

I really dislike any of the names that rhyme with it too, some sound made up. Brayton (i know a small boy with that name), Graydon, Leighton, Hayden, Jayden, Peighton (believe it or not have met one of them). Ugh. Avoid them all imo!

Beckett3 · 10/02/2014 06:38

It seems like I might be the only one, but I really like it, if DC4 had been a boy it would have been his middle name - Dominic Clayton.

I'm a big fan of the Kelley Armstrong book series that has a character named Clayton which is where I'd first heard it from.