Floyd
Floyd is the 520th most common surname in the United States, shared by 63,374 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,716.
By the numbers
- People
- 63,374
- Rank
- 520th
- How common
- 1 in 4,716
- Per 100,000
- 21.2
Where the name comes from
Origin Welsh
Anglicisation of the Welsh name, from Welsh llwyd (“grey, grey-haired”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Floyd described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Floyd
- George Floyd (1973–2020)African American man who was a victim of police violence in the United States, killed by Derek Chauvin
- Robert W. Floyd (1936–2001)American computer scientist
- Eddie Floyd (born 1935)American male singer
- John B. Floyd (1806–1863)American politician
- Pretty Boy Floyd (1904–1934)American bank robber
- William Floyd (1734–1821)American Founding Father and politician
- Keith Floyd (1943–2009)British celebrity cook, television personality and restaurateur
- Carlisle Floyd (1926–2021)American composer
People named Floyd with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Floyd
Also a first name
Floyd has been given to 155,747 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1926. See it as a given name.
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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.