Loyd

Where Loyd comes from

The dictionaries list Loyd as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #482 among boys — 14 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1919
    Peak, #206
    604 babies named Loyd — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1926
    Loyd Jowers born
    American restaurant owner
  4. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #352.
  5. 1965
    Loyd Blankenship born
    American hacker
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Loyd Blankenship · American hacker, born 1965
  • Loyd Jowers · American restaurant owner, 1926–2000
  • Loyd King · American basketball player, born 1949
  • Loyd Christopher · American baseball player, 1919–1991
  • Loyd Grossman · American journalist, broadcaster and entrepreneur born 1950, born 1950

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.