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Boyd
Pronounced /bɔɪd/
Rank in 2024
#2,227
Born in 2024
65
Peak year
1922 · #249
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 65 boys were named Boyd, about 1 in every 26,389.
- It peaked in 1922 with 508 babies, ranked #249.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 27,605 boys have been named Boyd since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Boyd per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.4Greatest1901–27
- 0.3Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- 0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 6,885 babies, 0.41 per 1,000. Silent: 7,110 babies, 0.34 per 1,000. Boomers: 7,011 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,900 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,039 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 772 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,144 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Scottish Gaelic, either buidhe (“blond, yellow, fair”), or a habitational surname from the Isle of Bute in Scotland.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /bɔɪd/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Boyd, CC BY-SA 4.0.