Lloyd

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Lloyd boys named Lloyd

By the numbers

Total US births

161,988

Estimated living today

56,000

Median age today

66

Peak year

1918

Best rank

51st

Rank in 2025

1,547th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

998 / 160,990

How old the living Lloyds are

born that year still alive today

Of the 161,988 babies given the name since 1880, about 56,000 are alive — 34 in every hundred. Roughly 2,100 of them are children and 30,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1959 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

From Welsh llwyd (“grey, grey-haired”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Lloyds

• Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959)American architect
• Lloyd J. Austin III (born 1953)United States 28th Secretary of Defense
• Lloyd Shapley (1923–2016)American economist and mathematician
• William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)American journalist and abolitionist
• Lloyd Bridges (1913–1998)American actor
• Lloyd Sherr (born 1956)American actor
• Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007)American children's writer
• Lloyd Banks (born 1982)American rapper

People named Lloyd with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Lloyd is most common

• TX8,574
• CA8,500
• PA7,930
• NY7,623
• IL7,212
• OH6,789
• MI6,156
• MO6,110
• LA5,760
• MN4,977

Relative to how many babies each state records, Lloyd is most concentrated in North Dakota (3.6×), South Dakota (3.0×), Nebraska (2.4×), Montana (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1918

The most popular boys’ names the year Lloyd peaked:

• John
• William
• James
• Robert
• Charles
• George

All the names of 1918

Lloyd elsewhere

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.

Lloyd: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Lloyd: rank by region

In 2023, Lloyd was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lloyd appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (269th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Lloyd 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.

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.