Clay?

[mothertobe789]

Honest opinions? Not Clayton! Just Clay :)

I'd spell it Cley

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.

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

13 reasons why inspired?

Awful.

How about Flint, Oakley, Brock,

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.

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.

I think 13 reasons why.

I think the Rooney’s have a Klay-with-a-K

I think it suits the kid on Thirteen Reasons Why, but I’m not over keen for an actual child

I must be getting old as my first thought was the broadcaster/gardener Clay Jones, though I don't think that was his actual first name.
I don't go a bundle on the name but I don't hate it either.

Very American makes me think of 13 reasons why the main character in that is called Clay.

Namesake of Wayne and Coleen Rooney's son.

Rooney
Awful!!

13 reasons why here too (which btw is tedious and goes on forever)
Terrible name.

Clay sounds awful...

I know an American called Clay and rather like it now I'm used to it. It's his middle name though (he goes by it rather than his more conventional first name).

Please don’t name a child Kai/cai regardless of it being suggested.

Others you may like are:
Clement

I read that as "cement", which sort of goes with clay .

I don't like it, OP : neither clay nor cement.

I also knew an American Clay, but that was short for Clayton.

A bit chavvy... In my humble opinion

I do like it but if also makes me think of that awful character (and presumably RL conspirator) from the film JFK.

Cole is nice and in a similar vein.

(Coke Hawlins, Cole Porter.)

FFS. Cole not Coke

But Coke is an improvement on Clay.

(let's hope it's not twins)

It's an American name that doesn't really "work" in the UK

(See also: Chase, Barron, D'Angelo, Cody, Trent, Trey...)