Meaning not yet researched.
Loyd: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #207 in 1919.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #207 in 1919; #13,159 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Loyd in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,159 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1919, at #207.
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Loyd: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #207 in 1919 · most boys in one year: 623 (1926).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Loyd, making it the 13,159th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,645 places from #10,514 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 7 boys named Loyd in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #207, reached in 1919. The most boys given the name in a single year was 623, in 1926. For comparison, it was #10,210 in 2015 and #420 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Loyd in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 14 babies. In all, 22,522 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 5,841 babies named Loyd.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 53 US boys were named Loyd; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lloyd (161,988 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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.
No nicknames listed for Loyd in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 5 | #13,159 |
| 2024 | — | — | 7 | #10,514 |
| 2023 | — | — | 6 | #11,704 |
| 2021 | — | — | 7 | #10,370 |
| 2019 | — | — | 10 | #7,984 |
| 2018 | — | — | 5 | #13,387 |
| 2017 | — | — | 8 | #9,378 |
| 2016 | — | — | 5 | #13,433 |
| 2015 | — | — | 7 | #10,210 |
| 2014 | — | — | 5 | #13,283 |
| 2013 | — | — | 7 | #10,319 |
| 2012 | — | — | 8 | #9,383 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #11,722 |
| 2010 | — | — | 9 | #8,536 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,541 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,742 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #11,506 |
| 2005 | — | — | 10 | #7,455 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #12,481 |
| 2003 | — | — | 7 | #9,254 |
| 2002 | — | — | 9 | #7,421 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,892 |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,643 |
| 1999 | — | — | 15 | #4,678 |
| 1998 | — | — | 14 | #4,791 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #5,920 |
| 1996 | — | — | 20 | #3,495 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,422 |
| 1994 | — | — | 19 | #3,542 |
| 1993 | — | — | 23 | #2,991 |
| 1992 | — | — | 23 | #2,962 |
| 1991 | — | — | 23 | #2,885 |
| 1990 | — | — | 21 | #3,019 |
| 1989 | — | — | 35 | #2,051 |
| 1988 | — | — | 38 | #1,808 |
| 1987 | — | — | 23 | #2,434 |
| 1986 | — | — | 37 | #1,713 |
| 1985 | — | — | 29 | #1,999 |
| 1984 | — | — | 37 | #1,619 |
| 1983 | — | — | 33 | #1,736 |
| 1982 | — | — | 50 | #1,331 |
| 1981 | — | — | 57 | #1,216 |
| 1980 | — | — | 62 | #1,160 |
| 1979 | — | — | 32 | #1,772 |
| 1978 | — | — | 46 | #1,366 |
| 1977 | — | — | 48 | #1,305 |
| 1976 | — | — | 59 | #1,106 |
| 1975 | — | — | 68 | #997 |
| 1974 | — | — | 55 | #1,111 |
| 1973 | — | — | 60 | #1,051 |
| 1972 | — | — | 70 | #972 |
| 1971 | — | — | 110 | #777 |
| 1970 | — | — | 105 | #797 |
| 1969 | — | — | 84 | #839 |
| 1968 | — | — | 91 | #778 |
| 1967 | — | — | 104 | #728 |
| 1966 | — | — | 90 | #768 |
| 1965 | — | — | 107 | #720 |
| 1964 | — | — | 111 | #733 |
| 1963 | — | — | 156 | #626 |
| 1962 | — | — | 146 | #642 |
| 1961 | — | — | 175 | #597 |
| 1960 | — | — | 148 | #642 |
| 1959 | — | — | 185 | #577 |
| 1958 | — | — | 171 | #592 |
| 1957 | — | — | 190 | #559 |
| 1956 | — | — | 198 | #531 |
| 1955 | — | — | 211 | #507 |
| 1954 | — | — | 192 | #527 |
| 1953 | — | — | 232 | #464 |
| 1952 | — | — | 247 | #450 |
| 1951 | — | — | 231 | #445 |
| 1950 | — | — | 255 | #420 |
| 1949 | — | — | 236 | #435 |
| 1948 | — | — | 268 | #412 |
| 1947 | — | — | 313 | #386 |
| 1946 | — | — | 326 | #362 |
| 1945 | — | — | 236 | #389 |
| 1944 | — | — | 289 | #352 |
| 1943 | — | — | 316 | #347 |
| 1942 | — | — | 343 | #326 |
| 1941 | — | — | 334 | #323 |
| 1940 | — | — | 331 | #309 |
| 1939 | — | — | 366 | #289 |
| 1938 | — | — | 355 | #290 |
| 1937 | — | — | 372 | #283 |
| 1936 | — | — | 356 | #286 |
| 1935 | — | — | 383 | #278 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,105 | 363 | #283 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,023 | 407 | #263 |
| 1932 | — | — | 448 | #255 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,152 | 515 | #229 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,225 | 499 | #253 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,370 | 506 | #242 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,706 | 540 | #240 |
| 1927 | — | — | 599 | #225 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,111 | 623 | #219 |
| 1925 | — | — | 554 | #237 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,806 | 605 | #223 |
| 1923 | — | — | 606 | #212 |
| 1922 | — | — | 582 | #229 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,824 | 600 | #222 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,224 | 582 | #222 |
| 1919 | — | — | 604 | #207 |
| 1918 | 10 | #3,154 | 567 | #218 |
| 1917 | — | — | 488 | #225 |
| 1916 | — | — | 467 | #228 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,677 | 436 | #228 |
| 1914 | — | — | 312 | #242 |
| 1913 | — | — | 235 | #248 |
| 1912 | — | — | 196 | #254 |
| 1911 | — | — | 137 | #216 |
| 1910 | — | — | 99 | #237 |
| 1909 | — | — | 79 | #249 |
| 1908 | — | — | 61 | #275 |
| 1907 | — | — | 68 | #255 |
| 1906 | — | — | 70 | #234 |
| 1905 | — | — | 53 | #270 |
| 1904 | — | — | 57 | #254 |
| 1903 | — | — | 70 | #214 |
| 1902 | — | — | 61 | #233 |
| 1901 | — | — | 60 | #225 |
| 1900 | — | — | 64 | #255 |
| 1899 | — | — | 46 | #248 |
| 1898 | — | — | 55 | #238 |
| 1897 | — | — | 61 | #214 |
| 1896 | — | — | 56 | #244 |
| 1895 | — | — | 55 | #241 |
| 1894 | — | — | 36 | #294 |
| 1893 | — | — | 49 | #253 |
| 1892 | — | — | 41 | #286 |
| 1891 | — | — | 29 | #315 |
| 1890 | — | — | 32 | #307 |
| 1889 | — | — | 31 | #317 |
| 1888 | — | — | 28 | #350 |
| 1887 | — | — | 20 | #373 |
| 1886 | — | — | 21 | #392 |
| 1885 | — | — | 24 | #361 |
| 1884 | — | — | 30 | #322 |
| 1883 | — | — | 13 | #507 |
| 1882 | — | — | 16 | #462 |
| 1881 | — | — | 11 | #549 |
| 1880 | — | — | 14 | #493 |
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).