How Many People Are Named Loyd?

5,623

people named Loyd are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 60,783 people in the US has this name

Based on 22,522 babies named Loyd in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#3,454

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Boy Names

#1,319

See the top 100

Peak Year

1926

630 births

Trend

→

Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: LOID
Gender: Primarily Male

Meaning:

Variant of LLOYD.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Loyd in English. Counting Loyd and these spellings together, about 61,184 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
0.1%
Male
99.9%

Almost all of the babies given the name Loyd (99.9%) were boys.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Loyd alive today is about 66 years old, and 71% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 57 and 79 in 2025.

Under 30 227
4%
30 to 59 1,397
24.8%
60 and over 4,000
71.1%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Loyd first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1926, to 630 babies. In 2025, 5 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Loyd has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #207, in 1919. In 2025 it ranked #13,154.

Boys
Rank in 2025#13,154
Best rank#207 (1919)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#228 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Loyd alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Loyd were born in Texas than in any other state: about 831 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Loyd was given 5.7 times as often in Oklahoma, 5.3 times in Arkansas and 3.1 times in Tennessee.

Texas 831
Oklahoma 368
California 309
Arkansas 296
Tennessee 283
Missouri 236
Georgia 205
Alabama 190
North Carolina 184
Kentucky 149
Mississippi 138
Louisiana 115
Virginia 85
Kansas 64
South Carolina 59
Illinois 53
Florida 46
Indiana 36
New Mexico 31
Ohio 31
Michigan 28
West Virginia 18
Colorado 15
Oregon 15
Iowa 11
Nebraska 4
Wisconsin 3
Pennsylvania 1
South Dakota 1

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