Clay, Clayton, Klay, or Klayton? what do u think? also any middle name ideas?
2007-01-09 18:18:26 · 37 answers · asked by goober 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Baby Names
As someone who has been in the teaching profession for many years, I hope you go with the more traditional spelling of "Clay," or "Clayton." For many years I have seen kids pay the price of their parents' attempts at individuality by coming up with "creative" spellings. You can tell they have spent their whole lives explaining that no, their name is not spelled the way one would think. If you want to be unusual, pick an unusual name ("Camden" or "Clement") instead of misspelling a traditional name. Besides, in this case, both "Klay" and "Klayton" look like names from Superman's home planet of Krypton---that or the name of someone the crew of the Enterprise would fight on one of the Star Trek episodes.
Furthermore, I would suggest "Clayton" as my first choice. Then the child always has the option of choosing the shorter nickname if he chooses, or using the longer, more formal name if that is his preference or suits his purpose when he goes to law school. If you give him the shorter name to start with, he's stuck with it.
A nice, traditional middle name also sounds elegant "Clayton James" or "Clayton Michael" would be nice--and would give him other name options if he chooses them in later life. Whatever you do, try to avoid alliteration: "Clayton Christopher" or "Clay Kim."
I don't mean to sound stuffy, but I'm speaking from the experience of naming two boys myself a couple of decades ago. We chose longer, traditional names. Interestingly, the boys prefer to be called by those names by family and girlfriends, and by nicknames by less close friends.
2007-01-09 18:42:33 · answer #1 · answered by ktd_73 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think Clayton Anthony is a good name to use ot Clayton Andrew. But try looking in a baby book too and see what would sound good with the name Clayton, Clay or Klay
2007-01-09 18:47:58 · answer #2 · answered by tommi_ghurl_2006 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Klayton Carl
2007-01-10 00:09:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clay Michael
Clayton Lee
Klay Scott
Klayton Blake
2007-01-10 04:07:04 · answer #4 · answered by DolphJenn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clayton
2007-01-10 17:04:10 · answer #5 · answered by evian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like Clayton. Some good middle names would be:
Clayton Joseph
Clayton Robert
Clayton Spencer
Try going to babynamegenie.com. On this site you can type in the potential baby name and it'll come up with some possible middle names.
2007-01-10 01:49:09 · answer #6 · answered by valerie_lynn82 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clay William
Clay Andrew
2007-01-10 04:34:58 · answer #7 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like Clayton the best. Good middle names would be Clayton Andrew, Clayton Alan, Clayton Chandler
2007-01-09 18:22:46 · answer #8 · answered by Tenn Gal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like it with a "C"...
Clay means: Mortal
Clayton means: Town-Dweller
What about these names:
Calvin Jean
Cecil William
Clayton Pierre
Clifton John
Conrad Brian
Claude Derek
Clayton John
Clayton Lee
Clayton Joseph
Clay Robert
Clay Lewis
Hope these help you...
2007-01-09 22:42:58 · answer #9 · answered by FranzeL 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clay Robert
2007-01-09 18:22:35 · answer #10 · answered by ஐ♥Julian'sMommy♥ஐ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋