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Although it may seem eccentric to name your child after mud, the 1953 edition of the journal "Names" sheds some light as to why the name might have been chosen in the past:
"If a mother has lost two children in childbirth or shortly thereafter, she can be assured of the survival of her third child, according to popular belief, only if the second baby lies buried face down in the grave and the third child is named for Mother Earth".
Hence any name with "earthy" meanings would have made a good choice for the third child to ensure its survival.
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"If a mother has lost two children in childbirth or shortly thereafter, she can be assured of the survival of her third child, according to popular belief, only if the second baby lies buried face down in the grave and the third child is named for Mother Earth".
Hence any name with "earthy" meanings would have made a good choice for the third child to ensure its survival.
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More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Clay are male.