Floyd

Where Floyd comes from

Anglicisation of the Welsh name Lloyd, from Welsh llwyd (“grey, grey-haired”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Floyd
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #75 among boys — 206 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1905
    Peak, #44
    523 babies named Floyd — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1975
    Floyd Landis born
    American road racing cyclist
  4. 1977
    Floyd Mayweather born
    American boxer
  5. 1990
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #638.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Lloyd, today particularly common among African Americans.
Namesakes
  • Floyd Mayweather · American boxer, born 1977
  • Floyd Landis · American road racing cyclist, born 1975
  • Floyd Patterson · American heavyweight boxer, 1935–2006
  • Floyd Ayité · Togolese-French footballer, born 1988
  • Floyd Red Crow Westerman · Native American entertainer, 1936–2007

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.