Lloyd

Where Lloyd comes from

From Welsh llwyd (“grey, grey-haired”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Lloyd
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #123 among boys — 104 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1918
    Peak, #51
    3,742 babies named Lloyd — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1923
    Lloyd Shapley born
    American economist and mathematician
  4. 1953
    Lloyd J. Austin III born
    United States 28th Secretary of Defense
  5. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #166.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Lloyd J. Austin III · United States 28th Secretary of Defense, born 1953
  • Lloyd Shapley · American economist and mathematician, 1923–2016
  • Lloyd Bridges · American actor, 1913–1998
  • Lloyd Sherr · American actor, born 1956
  • Lloyd Banks · American rapper, born 1982

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.