Floyd
Floyd is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 67 births. Its best rank was 44th, in 1905.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 670.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19263,623 births
- Best rank
- #44in 1905
- Since 1880
- 155,680people given the name
The story in the numbers
154,303 boys have been named Floyd in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 3,623 births — 0.33% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 67 births in 2024, against 3,623 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1934, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 119 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 60 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,377 girls have also been given it, 0.88% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Floyd | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,476 | |
| 1890s | 3,957 | |
| 1900s | 4,968 | |
| 1910s | 21,472 | |
| 1920s | 33,157 | |
| 1930s | 24,887 | |
| 1940s | 20,996 | |
| 1950s | 17,859 | |
| 1960s | 11,235 | |
| 1970s | 5,680 | |
| 1980s | 3,482 | |
| 1990s | 1,788 | |
| 2000s | 1,105 | |
| 2010s | 910 | |
| 2020s | 331 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Floyd was the 53rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1926 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Floyd
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Earlpeak 1921
- Herbertpeak 1928
- Earnestpeak 1926
- Clydepeak 1920
- Arliepeak 1921
- Herschelpeak 1921
- Alviepeak 1921
- Alfredpeak 1928
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.