Floyd
Floyd is a boy's name that peaked in 1926, when it was the 53rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,230th. About 47,000 Floyds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Floyd boys named Floyd
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 155,747
- Estimated living today
- 47,000
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1926
- Best rank
- 53rd
- Rank in 2025
- 2,230th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 1,377 / 154,370
How old the living Floyds are
born that year still alive today
Of the 155,747 babies given the name since 1880, about 47,000 are alive — 30 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 26,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Anglicisation of the Welsh name, from Welsh llwyd (“grey, grey-haired”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Floyds
- Floyd Mayweather (born 1977)American boxer
- Floyd Landis (born 1975)American road racing cyclist
- Floyd Patterson (1935–2006)American heavyweight boxer
- Floyd Ayité (born 1988)Togolese-French footballer
- Floyd Red Crow Westerman (1936–2007)Native American entertainer
- Floyd Council (1911–1976)American blues guitarist and singer
- Floyd Cramer (1933–1997)American pianist
- Floyd Cardoz (1960–2020)Indian chef and winner of Top Chef Masters
People named Floyd with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Floyd is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Floyd is most concentrated in Oklahoma (3.1×), Arkansas (3.0×), South Dakota (2.3×), Kansas (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1926
The most popular boys’ names the year Floyd peaked:
Floyd elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Floyd | 435 | 927th |
| France boys | Floyd | 205 | 1,541st |
| Scotland boys | Floyd | 19 | 383rd |
| Ireland boys | Floyd | 3 | 720th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Floyd among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Floyd | 5 | 15 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Floyd against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.