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Floyd

Pronounced /flɔɪd/

Rank in 2024
#2,178
Born in 2024
67
Peak year
1926 · #53
Origin
Not recorded

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 67 boys were named Floyd, about 1 in every 25,602.
  • It peaked in 1926 with 3,623 babies, ranked #53.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 154,303 boys have been named Floyd since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Floyd per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 3.1
    Greatest
  2. 2.1
    Silent
  3. 0.9
    Boomers
  4. 0.4
    Gen X
  5. 0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 52,625 babies, 3.15 per 1,000. Silent: 43,904 babies, 2.13 per 1,000. Boomers: 32,994 babies, 0.88 per 1,000. Gen X: 10,621 babies, 0.39 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,422 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,755 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 994 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Anglicisation of the Welsh name Lloyd, from Welsh llwyd (“grey, grey-haired”).

  • A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Lloyd, today particularly common among African Americans.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/flɔɪd/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Floyd, CC BY-SA 4.0.