girls:
86 births since 1915
#5630 (1st percentile)
boys:
22.4k births since 1880
#765 (83rd percentile)
overall:
22.5k births since 1880
#1692 (78th percentile)
The name Loyd is the #1,692 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,509 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 78.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #765 (83.3% percentile) for all time with 22,423 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,630 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 86 births since 1915.
Loyd has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1915 for girls). Birth data for Loyd is available in 141 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (141 years for boys and 12 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Loyd has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Loyd reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 64.2% percentile (ranked #192) with 595 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 595 births per million (ranked 64.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Loyd ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Loyd reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #599) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1934.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Loyd".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Loyd", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 7 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Lloyd" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Lloyd..
Our model found one way to pronounce the name Loyd. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Loyd is pronounced as loyd, which has 1 syllables.
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