Boyd

At the 2020 census, 147,346 Americans bore the surname Boyd — 182nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 2,029.

By the numbers

People: 147,346
Rank: 182nd
How common: 1 in 2,029
Per 100,000: 49.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

From Scottish Gaelic, either buidhe (“blond, yellow, fair”), or a habitational surname from the Isle of Bute in Scotland.

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Boyd described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 60.8%
Black, not Hispanic 29.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Boyd

Billy Boyd (born 1968)Scottish actor and musician
Stephen Boyd (1931–1977)Northern Irish actor
William Boyd (born 1952)Scottish novelist, short story writer, and screen writer
Pattie Boyd (born 1944)English model, photographer
Kris Boyd (born 1983)Scottish association football player
Brandon Boyd (born 1976)American singer
George Boyd (born 1985)association football player
Cayden Boyd (born 1994)American actor

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

Surnames like Boyd

Also a first name

Boyd has been given to 27,745 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1922. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.