Cloyd
Cloyd was last recorded in 1993, when 6 babies were given it; 3,050 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Cloyd by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Cloyd mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Cloyd is “a male given name transferred from the surname”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Cloyd?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,788, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
91 babies in 1918, the peak
Cloyd peaked in 1918, when 91 boys were given it, #646 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 6 | #7,788 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,332 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,558 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,909 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,480 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #4,206 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,649 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,478 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,680 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,523 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 8 | #4,010 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,352 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #4,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,397 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,041 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,133 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,149 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 13 | #2,341 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 12 | #2,375 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,810 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 20 | #1,782 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,565 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,323 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 12 | #2,399 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 24 | #1,646 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 23 | #1,695 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 28 | #1,506 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 23 | #1,649 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 25 | #1,587 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 21 | #1,725 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,373 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,313 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,456 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 25 | #1,522 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 24 | #1,524 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 40 | #1,124 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 45 | #1,048 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 41 | #1,107 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 42 | #1,119 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 43 | #1,046 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,303 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 35 | #1,121 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 43 | #1,022 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 46 | #986 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 49 | #907 | 0.04 |
| 1940 | 50 | #896 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,124 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 57 | #819 | 0.05 |
| 1937 | 40 | #1,001 | 0.04 |
| 1936 | 56 | #818 | 0.05 |
| 1935 | 58 | #817 | 0.06 |
| 1934 | 59 | #811 | 0.06 |
| 1933 | 58 | #813 | 0.06 |
| 1932 | 52 | #893 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 52 | #890 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 55 | #895 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 69 | #771 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 67 | #798 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 71 | #782 | 0.06 |
| 1926 | 75 | #739 | 0.07 |
| 1925 | 86 | #697 | 0.08 |
| 1924 | 67 | #826 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 69 | #805 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 59 | #908 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 83 | #724 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 73 | #777 | 0.07 |
| 1919 | 85 | #673 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 91 | #646 | 0.09 |
| 1917 | 72 | #729 | 0.08 |
| 1916 | 65 | #759 | 0.07 |
| 1915 | 84 | #633 | 0.10 |
| 1914 | 46 | #778 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 30 | #902 | 0.06 |
| 1912 | 32 | #768 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 20 | #712 | 0.09 |
| 1910 | 11 | #990 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 7 | #1,176 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 16 | #661 | 0.10 |
| 1907 | 13 | #745 | 0.09 |
| 1906 | 11 | #765 | 0.08 |
| 1905 | 12 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,241 | 0.04 |
| 1903 | 9 | #798 | 0.08 |
| 1902 | 12 | #658 | 0.10 |
| 1901 | 8 | #789 | 0.08 |
| 1900 | 9 | #914 | 0.06 |
| 1899 | 11 | #627 | 0.10 |
| 1898 | 10 | #706 | 0.08 |
| 1897 | 6 | #964 | 0.05 |
| 1896 | 7 | #913 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 10 | #701 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 11 | #637 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 12 | #578 | 0.11 |
| 1892 | 19 | #447 | 0.16 |
| 1891 | 13 | #501 | 0.13 |
| 1890 | 10 | #637 | 0.09 |
| 1889 | 12 | #559 | 0.11 |
| 1888 | 13 | #561 | 0.11 |
| 1887 | 8 | #697 | 0.08 |
| 1886 | 8 | #712 | 0.07 |
| 1885 | 7 | #778 | 0.06 |
| 1884 | 12 | #550 | 0.10 |
| 1883 | 9 | #654 | 0.09 |
| 1882 | 6 | #858 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 10 | #569 | 0.10 |
| 1880 | 12 | #537 | 0.11 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Cloyd a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Cloyd has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 106 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Cloyd: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Cloyd, and how old are they?
An estimated 654 Americans named Cloyd and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (21% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 61 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 917 people named Cloyd (9 women and girls, 908 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 865 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Cloyd born?
The states with the most babies named Cloyd are Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, with 78% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 471 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Ohio | 186 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 50 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 29 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Utah | 17 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Cloyd is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Cloyd is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1910 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Cloyd with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 3,826 babies since 1880, Cloyd is the most given (80% of them). In 2025 none of their 39 babies recorded by SSA was a Cloyd (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Cloyd
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Cloyd and names like it
- Compare Cloyd and CloudBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sCloyd peaked in 1918.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Cloyd since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Cloyd: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Cloyd.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Cloyd alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with CMost given first.