Floyd

63,374 people in America carry this name — ranked #520 of 777.

A surname with a trade, a place or a father behind it.

Say it FLOYD

1 syllable · the capitals are the stressed part

Phonetic transcription

F L OY1 D — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.

  • People counted 63,374 2020 Census
  • Rank #520 Familiar

What Floyd means and where it comes from

Reads literally as “son of Lloyd”.
A name taken from a father’s name.

Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.

A name and a surname

Floyd is carried in front of the comma and behind it — thousands of Americans have it as a surname too.

Who has this name today

  • White alone (non-Hispanic) — 62.6%
  • Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 28.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino origin — 2.9%
  • Two or more races — 5.0%
  • Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 0.5%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native alone — 0.6%

Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.

How to spell Floyd

Floyd is how 79% of them spell it — 79,950 people answer to the sound.

Each spelling is its own census entry — the counts never overlap, so the shares are of the group, not of the country.

Names about as common

The nearest entries above and below by number of people.

Surnames with the same rhythm as Floyd

Ends on the same sound

Same rhythm — 1 syllables, stress on the first

Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.

Try it How Rare Is It?

Where this name sits between household and almost unheard of.

Familiar

  • People counted48,533
  • Rank#924
  • Roughly1 in 6,829 people

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Where this page gets its numbers

  • Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
  • Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
  • Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.

Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers