girls:
998 births since 1903
#4718 (17th percentile)
boys:
160.8k births since 1880
#211 (95th percentile)
overall:
161.8k births since 1880
#466 (94th percentile)
The name Lloyd is the #466 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 161,779 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #211 (95.4% percentile) for all time with 160,781 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,718 (17.4% percentile) for all time with 998 births since 1903.
Lloyd has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1903 for girls).
The name Lloyd has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lloyd reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 90.6% percentile (ranked #51) with 3,568 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 3,568 births per million (ranked 90.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Lloyd ranks #826 for boys (9.3% percentile) with 49 births per million, which is 1.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lloyd reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 5.4% percentile (ranked #561) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 32 births per million (ranked 5.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lloyd".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lloyd. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lloyd is pronounced as loyd, which has 1 syllables.
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