Floyd
Floyd was given to 63 boys in 2025, #2,237 among boys’ names; 155,747 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 45,600 Americans named Floyd and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 55 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Floyd by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Floyd mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Floyd is “a male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Lloyd, today particularly common among African Americans.” Its etymology gives the sense “grey, grey-haired” (llwyd).
Anglicisation of the Welsh name Lloyd, from Welsh llwyd (“grey, grey-haired”).
/flɔɪd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Floyd?
#2,237 among boys’ names, 2025
Floyd fell from #1,532 in 2015 to #2,237 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 55.8 to 36.9 per million.
3,662 babies in 1926, the peak
Floyd peaked in 1926, when 3,662 babies were given it (3,623 boys, #53 among boys’ names). The 63 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,237 | 0.04 |
| 2024 | 69 | #2,141 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 53 | #2,519 | 0.03 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,251 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 77 | #1,945 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 70 | #2,031 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 78 | #1,905 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 85 | #1,798 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 97 | #1,633 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,457 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 107 | #1,532 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 87 | #1,736 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 91 | #1,661 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 80 | #1,838 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 88 | #1,692 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 79 | #1,838 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 105 | #1,556 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,507 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 113 | #1,436 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 94 | #1,565 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 98 | #1,480 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 114 | #1,304 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 104 | #1,328 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 109 | #1,243 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 121 | #1,144 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 139 | #1,038 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 117 | #1,126 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 141 | #975 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 145 | #930 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 134 | #959 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 150 | #890 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 184 | #783 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 224 | #689 | 0.11 |
| 1992 | 195 | #738 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 247 | #646 | 0.12 |
| 1990 | 251 | #636 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 293 | #567 | 0.15 |
| 1988 | 275 | #554 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 326 | #490 | 0.17 |
| 1986 | 328 | #481 | 0.18 |
| 1985 | 303 | #499 | 0.16 |
| 1984 | 330 | #465 | 0.18 |
| 1983 | 356 | #439 | 0.20 |
| 1982 | 395 | #421 | 0.22 |
| 1981 | 431 | #390 | 0.24 |
| 1980 | 444 | #386 | 0.25 |
| 1979 | 448 | #380 | 0.26 |
| 1978 | 477 | #354 | 0.29 |
| 1977 | 490 | #354 | 0.30 |
| 1976 | 448 | #360 | 0.29 |
| 1975 | 521 | #334 | 0.33 |
| 1974 | 591 | #309 | 0.38 |
| 1973 | 606 | #297 | 0.39 |
| 1972 | 610 | #304 | 0.38 |
| 1971 | 735 | #283 | 0.42 |
| 1970 | 754 | #280 | 0.41 |
| 1969 | 799 | #261 | 0.45 |
| 1968 | 828 | #249 | 0.48 |
| 1967 | 872 | #237 | 0.50 |
| 1966 | 942 | #229 | 0.53 |
| 1965 | 1,055 | #225 | 0.57 |
| 1964 | 1,200 | #219 | 0.60 |
| 1963 | 1,293 | #216 | 0.64 |
| 1962 | 1,343 | #209 | 0.65 |
| 1961 | 1,439 | #203 | 0.68 |
| 1960 | 1,465 | #198 | 0.69 |
| 1959 | 1,533 | #193 | 0.72 |
| 1958 | 1,627 | #179 | 0.77 |
| 1957 | 1,825 | #170 | 0.85 |
| 1956 | 1,729 | #172 | 0.82 |
| 1955 | 1,714 | #165 | 0.83 |
| 1954 | 1,871 | #152 | 0.92 |
| 1953 | 1,875 | #152 | 1.0 |
| 1952 | 1,860 | #149 | 1.0 |
| 1951 | 1,935 | #140 | 1.0 |
| 1950 | 1,890 | #143 | 1.1 |
| 1949 | 2,021 | #133 | 1.1 |
| 1948 | 2,040 | #134 | 1.2 |
| 1947 | 2,212 | #130 | 1.2 |
| 1946 | 2,124 | #121 | 1.3 |
| 1945 | 1,986 | #114 | 1.5 |
| 1944 | 2,096 | #110 | 1.5 |
| 1943 | 2,226 | #112 | 1.6 |
| 1942 | 2,172 | #113 | 1.6 |
| 1941 | 2,109 | #102 | 1.7 |
| 1940 | 2,012 | #103 | 1.7 |
| 1939 | 2,094 | #94 | 1.9 |
| 1938 | 2,146 | #96 | 1.9 |
| 1937 | 2,388 | #80 | 2.2 |
| 1936 | 2,228 | #86 | 2.1 |
| 1935 | 2,506 | #76 | 2.4 |
| 1934 | 2,533 | #73 | 2.5 |
| 1933 | 2,541 | #69 | 2.6 |
| 1932 | 2,667 | #68 | 2.6 |
| 1931 | 2,707 | #66 | 2.6 |
| 1930 | 3,077 | #61 | 2.8 |
| 1929 | 3,079 | #58 | 2.9 |
| 1928 | 3,338 | #54 | 3.0 |
| 1927 | 3,549 | #53 | 3.1 |
| 1926 | 3,623 | #53 | 3.3 |
| 1925 | 3,524 | #58 | 3.2 |
| 1924 | 3,165 | #66 | 2.8 |
| 1923 | 3,143 | #64 | 2.9 |
| 1922 | 3,221 | #61 | 3.0 |
| 1921 | 3,255 | #63 | 3.0 |
| 1920 | 3,260 | #61 | 3.1 |
| 1919 | 3,121 | #59 | 3.2 |
| 1918 | 3,235 | #61 | 3.2 |
| 1917 | 2,820 | #62 | 3.0 |
| 1916 | 2,783 | #60 | 3.1 |
| 1915 | 2,824 | #59 | 3.3 |
| 1914 | 2,090 | #58 | 3.2 |
| 1913 | 1,740 | #58 | 3.4 |
| 1912 | 1,438 | #59 | 3.3 |
| 1911 | 734 | #57 | 3.2 |
| 1910 | 687 | #55 | 3.5 |
| 1909 | 570 | #53 | 3.5 |
| 1908 | 529 | #55 | 3.4 |
| 1907 | 521 | #53 | 3.5 |
| 1906 | 458 | #54 | 3.4 |
| 1905 | 523 | #44 | 4.0 |
| 1904 | 446 | #52 | 3.5 |
| 1903 | 472 | #46 | 4.0 |
| 1902 | 471 | #47 | 3.8 |
| 1901 | 423 | #46 | 4.0 |
| 1900 | 555 | #48 | 3.7 |
| 1899 | 356 | #52 | 3.4 |
| 1898 | 434 | #51 | 3.5 |
| 1897 | 451 | #48 | 4.0 |
| 1896 | 396 | #55 | 3.3 |
| 1895 | 427 | #51 | 3.6 |
| 1894 | 445 | #46 | 3.8 |
| 1893 | 351 | #59 | 3.1 |
| 1892 | 420 | #52 | 3.4 |
| 1891 | 336 | #53 | 3.3 |
| 1890 | 341 | #60 | 3.1 |
| 1889 | 313 | #63 | 2.8 |
| 1888 | 302 | #67 | 2.5 |
| 1887 | 232 | #73 | 2.3 |
| 1886 | 275 | #66 | 2.5 |
| 1885 | 259 | #70 | 2.4 |
| 1884 | 263 | #70 | 2.3 |
| 1883 | 217 | #73 | 2.1 |
| 1882 | 231 | #76 | 2.0 |
| 1881 | 178 | #78 | 1.8 |
| 1880 | 206 | #75 | 1.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Floyd a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Floyd has been given almost only to boys: 1,377 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Floyd: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Floyd, and how old are they?
45,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 29% of the 155,747 Americans ever recorded as Floyd. The median Floyd alive today is 68 years old; half are between 55 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 48,533 people named Floyd (159 women and girls, 48,374 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 56,253 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7,750 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 21,400 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9,340 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,210 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,720 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,050 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Floyd born?
The states with the most babies named Floyd are Texas, Ohio and Illinois, with 17% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10,248 | #1,966 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 6,607 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 6,502 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 6,255 | #1,337 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 5,890 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Oklahoma | 5,887 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| New York | 5,845 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 5,817 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 5,720 | #1,163 | 1.0× |
| California | 5,325 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Floyd is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Floyd is most over-represented in Oklahoma: 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 Floyd 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 155,864 babies since 1880, Floyd is the most given (100% of them). In 2025 it was given to 63 of their 63 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Floyd
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 Floyd and names like it
- Compare Floyd and FloyedBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sFloyd peaked in 1926.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Floyd since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Floyd: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Floyd.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Floyd alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with FMost given first.