Lloyd

See also: Lloyd's and Lloyds

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /lɔɪd/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪd

Proper noun

Lloyd (countable and uncountable)

  1. A surname from Welsh, from a nickname for someone with grey hair.
    • 1967 June 9, Richard Saltonstall Jr., “New Surge for a Tired Old Idiom”, in LIFE:
      a ... young saxophonist named Charles Lloyd
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
    • 2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business‎[1]:
      According to a list of participants on the forum’s website, the CEOs of Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) still plan to go. Both banks declined to comment. But a person familiar with the situation said Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein was “unlikely to attend.”
  3. A number of places in the United States:
    1. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jefferson County, Florida.
    2. An unincorporated community in Greenup County, Kentucky.
    3. An unincorporated community in Blaine County, Montana.
    4. A town in Ulster County, New York.
    5. A former settlement in Portage County, Ohio.

Derived terms

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Lloyd is the 522nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 64,202 individuals. Lloyd is most common among White (75.29%) and Black (22.11%) individuals.

References

  • Mike Campbell (1996–2025), “Lloyd”, in Behind the Name, Victoria, British Columbia.

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