Floyd

given name · Latin script

Meaning: An anglicization of Lloyd, approximating its Welsh pronunciation

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/flɔɪd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Floyd is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 2.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IEIreland≈1 in 3.3K
  • CACanada≈1 in 4.1K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈440,000 people, est.

Sources
504 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

An anglicization of Lloyd, approximating its Welsh pronunciation.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Floyd, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Floyd counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Floyd is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈440,000 est.≈1 in 3.2K—Floyd20
US United States#49448,5331 in 6.9K66KFloyd504
GB United Kingdom#589≈13,000 est.≈1 in 5K3Floyd189
IT Italy#874≈9,800 est.≈1 in 6.4K1Floyd23
CA Canada#527≈9,300 est.≈1 in 4.1K1Floyd157
SG Singapore#284≈2,300 est.≈1 in 2.8K—Floyd16
IE Ireland#291≈1,600 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Floyd39
GY Guyana—4621 in 1.6K462—4

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Floyd is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Philippines, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Flóyd

72 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Floyd is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, form of Lloyd; first attested Richard Floyd 1509 LP

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • $ Transferred use of the Welsh surname, in origin a variant of Lloyd. This form of the name results from an attempt to represent the sound of the Welsh initial LI- using traditional English pronunciation and orthography. In the 20th century it has been particularly common in the southern United States. 9I

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • De cabello gris

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Irish, Normally a variant of Lloyd but sometimes synonymous with Flood. It is mainly found in Munster

    as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland

  • English: variant of LLOYD . This form of the name results from an attempt to represent the sound of the Welsh initial LI - using standard English pronunciation and orthography. In the 20th century it has been particularly common in the southern United States and among American Blacks.

    as a word

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Floyd Henry Allport, b. 1890Floyd Crosby, b. 1899Chester Carlson, b. 1906Floyd Patterson, b. 1935Floyd Red Crow Westerman, b. 1936William Weld, b. 1945Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, b. 1972Floyd Landis, b. 1975Floyd Mayweather, b. 1977Floyd Ayité, b. 1988

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Floyd,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 66 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Floyd
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201066K#505
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200064K#469
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202063K#520

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Floyd a male or female name?
Floyd is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Floyd mean, and where does it come from?
An anglicization of Lloyd, approximating its Welsh pronunciation. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
What are other forms of the name Floyd?
In the etymology graph, Lloyd is a form of the same name in other languages.
How do you pronounce Floyd?
A machine transcription gives /flɔɪd/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Floyd have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 438 thousand people named Floyd in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled floyd.
Where is Floyd most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Floyd is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 1.6 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Floyd?
In the United States, the national register counted 48,533 people named Floyd in 2020, about 1 in 6.9 thousand residents.
How common is Floyd compared with other names?
In Singapore, Floyd is the 284th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Floyd” — the 284th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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