Clay
63
Babies in 2024
+117%
10-year change
2021
Peak · 68
+54%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Clay
Clay is a rising UK boy's name. Registrations in 2024 (63) are up 117% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Clay reached its peak in 2021, when 68 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #566 for UK boys that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 834 boys have been officially registered with the name Clay in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 575 boys were registered with the name, starting from 29 in 2014 and ending at 63 in 2024.