# Cloyd (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/cloyd/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,050 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 3,050 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 7 | 4,043 |
| 1972 | 9 | 3,399 |
| 1973 | 6 | 4,595 |
| 1974 | 5 | 5,354 |
| 1975 | 8 | 4,012 |
| 1976 | 7 | 4,525 |
| 1977 | 7 | 4,682 |
| 1979 | 8 | 4,480 |
| 1980 | 6 | 5,651 |
| 1981 | 9 | 4,208 |
| 1984 | 5 | 6,484 |
| 1986 | 5 | 6,915 |
| 1988 | 6 | 6,565 |
| 1990 | 5 | 8,341 |
| 1993 | 6 | 7,794 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.