Cloyd
Cloyd is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 447th, in 1892.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191891 births
- Best rank
- #447in 1892
- Since 1880
- 3,050people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,050 boys have been named Cloyd in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 91 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 91 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1929, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 59 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Cloyd | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 97 | |
| 1890s | 109 | |
| 1900s | 102 | |
| 1910s | 536 | |
| 1920s | 719 | |
| 1930s | 520 | |
| 1940s | 420 | |
| 1950s | 277 | |
| 1960s | 153 | |
| 1970s | 75 | |
| 1980s | 31 | |
| 1990s | 11 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Cloyd was the 646th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Cloyd
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Harmonpeak 1921
- Walterpeak 1918
- Millardpeak 1922
- Dorseypeak 1916
- Willispeak 1924
- Albertpeak 1921
- Evertpeak 1923
- Lymanpeak 1917
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.