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Floyd: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 63 in 2025. Its best rank was #44 in 1905.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #44 in 1905; #2,237 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Floyd in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,237 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1905, at #44.
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Floyd: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 63 boys in 2025. Peak: #44 in 1905 · most boys in one year: 3,623 (1926).
In 2025, 63 US boys were named Floyd, making it the 2,237th most common boys’ name of the year, down 96 places from #2,141 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 69 boys named Floyd in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #44, reached in 1905. The most boys given the name in a single year was 3,623, in 1926. For comparison, it was #1,532 in 2015 and #143 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Floyd in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 206 babies with the name. In all, 155,747 US babies have been given the name, 0.9% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 33,490 babies named Floyd.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 774 US boys were named Floyd; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 118. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,112 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Floyd ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #1,163 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Floyde, Floyed and Floid are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Lloyd.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Floyde (310), Floyed (117), Floid (42).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 5 | #1,163 | — |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,337 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #1,966 | #1,574 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 63 | #2,237 |
| 2024 | — | — | 69 | #2,141 |
| 2023 | — | — | 53 | #2,520 |
| 2022 | — | — | 64 | #2,252 |
| 2021 | — | — | 77 | #1,946 |
| 2020 | — | — | 70 | #2,031 |
| 2019 | — | — | 78 | #1,905 |
| 2018 | — | — | 85 | #1,798 |
| 2017 | — | — | 97 | #1,633 |
| 2016 | — | — | 118 | #1,457 |
| 2015 | — | — | 107 | #1,532 |
| 2014 | — | — | 87 | #1,736 |
| 2013 | — | — | 91 | #1,662 |
| 2012 | — | — | 80 | #1,839 |
| 2011 | — | — | 88 | #1,692 |
| 2010 | — | — | 79 | #1,839 |
| 2009 | — | — | 105 | #1,557 |
| 2008 | — | — | 108 | #1,507 |
| 2007 | — | — | 113 | #1,436 |
| 2006 | — | — | 94 | #1,565 |
| 2005 | — | — | 98 | #1,481 |
| 2004 | — | — | 114 | #1,306 |
| 2003 | — | — | 104 | #1,329 |
| 2002 | — | — | 109 | #1,246 |
| 2001 | — | — | 121 | #1,146 |
| 2000 | — | — | 139 | #1,040 |
| 1999 | — | — | 117 | #1,128 |
| 1998 | — | — | 141 | #978 |
| 1997 | — | — | 145 | #932 |
| 1996 | — | — | 134 | #961 |
| 1995 | — | — | 150 | #893 |
| 1994 | — | — | 184 | #785 |
| 1993 | — | — | 224 | #690 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,994 | 195 | #740 |
| 1991 | — | — | 247 | #648 |
| 1990 | — | — | 251 | #638 |
| 1989 | — | — | 293 | #568 |
| 1988 | — | — | 275 | #554 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,896 | 326 | #490 |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,521 | 328 | #481 |
| 1985 | — | — | 303 | #499 |
| 1984 | — | — | 330 | #465 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,798 | 356 | #439 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,017 | 395 | #421 |
| 1981 | — | — | 431 | #390 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,886 | 444 | #386 |
| 1979 | — | — | 448 | #380 |
| 1978 | — | — | 477 | #354 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,111 | 490 | #354 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,473 | 448 | #360 |
| 1975 | — | — | 521 | #334 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,196 | 591 | #309 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,213 | 606 | #297 |
| 1972 | 5 | #8,685 | 610 | #304 |
| 1971 | — | — | 735 | #283 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,527 | 754 | #280 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,891 | 799 | #261 |
| 1968 | — | — | 828 | #249 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,908 | 872 | #237 |
| 1966 | — | — | 942 | #229 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,834 | 1,055 | #225 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,577 | 1,200 | #219 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,102 | 1,293 | #216 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,086 | 1,343 | #209 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,021 | 1,439 | #203 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,769 | 1,465 | #198 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,897 | 1,533 | #193 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,603 | 1,627 | #179 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,541 | 1,825 | #170 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,964 | 1,729 | #172 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,169 | 1,714 | #165 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,069 | 1,871 | #152 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,334 | 1,875 | #152 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,632 | 1,860 | #149 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,341 | 1,935 | #140 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,815 | 1,890 | #143 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,445 | 2,021 | #133 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,633 | 2,040 | #134 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,117 | 2,212 | #130 |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,421 | 2,124 | #121 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,508 | 1,986 | #114 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,672 | 2,096 | #110 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,934 | 2,226 | #112 |
| 1942 | 21 | #1,881 | 2,172 | #113 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,352 | 2,109 | #102 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,138 | 2,012 | #103 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,065 | 2,094 | #94 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,268 | 2,146 | #96 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,030 | 2,388 | #80 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,655 | 2,228 | #86 |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,691 | 2,506 | #76 |
| 1934 | 23 | #1,570 | 2,533 | #73 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,523 | 2,541 | #69 |
| 1932 | 30 | #1,359 | 2,667 | #68 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,566 | 2,707 | #66 |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,471 | 3,077 | #61 |
| 1929 | 32 | #1,350 | 3,079 | #58 |
| 1928 | 33 | #1,348 | 3,338 | #54 |
| 1927 | 42 | #1,202 | 3,549 | #53 |
| 1926 | 39 | #1,249 | 3,623 | #53 |
| 1925 | 33 | #1,421 | 3,524 | #58 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,624 | 3,165 | #66 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,437 | 3,143 | #64 |
| 1922 | 43 | #1,174 | 3,221 | #61 |
| 1921 | 27 | #1,637 | 3,255 | #63 |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,720 | 3,260 | #61 |
| 1919 | 37 | #1,253 | 3,121 | #59 |
| 1918 | 29 | #1,466 | 3,235 | #61 |
| 1917 | 32 | #1,292 | 2,820 | #62 |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,606 | 2,783 | #60 |
| 1915 | 28 | #1,350 | 2,824 | #59 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,506 | 2,090 | #58 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,377 | 1,740 | #58 |
| 1912 | 18 | #1,265 | 1,438 | #59 |
| 1911 | 13 | #1,329 | 734 | #57 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,678 | 687 | #55 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,514 | 570 | #53 |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,159 | 529 | #55 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,181 | 521 | #53 |
| 1906 | 9 | #1,368 | 458 | #54 |
| 1905 | 11 | #1,198 | 523 | #44 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,989 | 446 | #52 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,048 | 472 | #46 |
| 1902 | — | — | 471 | #47 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,166 | 423 | #46 |
| 1900 | 14 | #1,025 | 555 | #48 |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,478 | 356 | #52 |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,418 | 434 | #51 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,201 | 451 | #48 |
| 1896 | 10 | #1,073 | 396 | #55 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,689 | 427 | #51 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,021 | 445 | #46 |
| 1893 | 10 | #980 | 351 | #59 |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,341 | 420 | #52 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,042 | 336 | #53 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,262 | 341 | #60 |
| 1889 | 12 | #768 | 313 | #63 |
| 1888 | 7 | #1,071 | 302 | #67 |
| 1887 | — | — | 232 | #73 |
| 1886 | 9 | #794 | 275 | #66 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,100 | 259 | #70 |
| 1884 | — | — | 263 | #70 |
| 1883 | — | — | 217 | #73 |
| 1882 | — | — | 231 | #76 |
| 1881 | — | — | 178 | #78 |
| 1880 | — | — | 206 | #75 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).