Lloyd

62,010 people in America carry this name — ranked #531 of 777.

A surname carried in front of the comma as often as behind it.

Say it LOYD

1 syllable · the capitals are the stressed part

Phonetic transcription

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

People counted 62,010 2020 Census
Rank #531 Familiar
As a first name 63,231 ranked #781 the other way round

What Lloyd means and where it comes from

Celtic in origin, reading literally as “grey”.

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

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

By sound First names that fit Lloyd Which names sit well before it, and which rhyme or double up — with the reason for each.

The most common full names

The census counts first names and surnames separately and never together, so these are estimates: how often the two halves would meet if they paired at random. They do not — names cluster by community — so read them as an order of magnitude, not a headcount.

Names about as common

The nearest entries above and below by number of people.

The same name abroad

Llwyd Welsh

Forms of one name traced to the same root. Spellings are as the glossary printed them, so some look older than the versions in use today.

Same syllables and stress as Lloyd

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.

Who has this name today

White alone (non-Hispanic) — 70.1%
Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 21.3%
Hispanic or Latino origin — 3.3%
Two or more races — 4.1%
Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 0.8%

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.

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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
Other names of Celtic origin