Name: Floyd
Gender: Male
Usage: Floyd, of celtic origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Floyd are in general originating from France, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Floyd across the world, see Lloyd.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Floyd is: Grey, The hollow.
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Numerology of the first name Floyd: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 8. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: ambitious, successful, realistic, powerful, authoritative, courageous, leading.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Leader, Visionary
Ruling planet: Saturn
Colors: Black, Purple
Gemstones: Ruby, Amethyst
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The name Floyd is ranked on the 1,936th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 215600 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.003% of the population. The name Floyd has five characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Floyd for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Floyd is a masculine English given name. Notable people with the name include:
- Floyd Abrams (born 1936), American attorney
- Floyd Bannister (born 1955), retired Major League Baseball pitcher
- Floyd Collins (1887–1925), American pioneer caver
- Floyd Council (1911–1976), American blues musician
- Floyd Cramer (1933–1997), American pianist
- Floyd Favors (born 1963), American boxer
- Floyd Gottfredson (1905-1986), American cartoonist best known for his work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip
- Floyd Heard (born 1966), American track and field sprinter
- Floyd Landis (born 1975), American cyclist
- Floyd Mayweather Jr. (born 1977), American five-division boxing champion
- Floyd Mayweather Sr., American welterweight boxer and trainer
- Floyd MacMillan Davis (1896-1966), American painter and illustrator
- Floyd Odlum (1892-1976), American lawyer and businessman
- Floyd B. Olson (1891–1936), Governor of Minnesota
- Floyd Patterson (1935–2006), two-time world heavyweight boxing champion
- Floyd D. Rose, inventor of Floyd Rose guitar bridge
- Floyd Tillman (1914-2003), American country musician
- Floyd Vivino (born 1951), American comedian known as Uncle Floyd
Fictional characters:
- Floyd Lawson, barber in the TV show The Andy Griffith Show
- Floyd Pepper, a puppet character on the TV series The Muppet Show
English: variant of Lloyd. This form of the name results from an attempt to represent the sound of the Welsh initial LI- using standard English pronunciation and orthography. In the 20th century it has been particularly common in the southern United States and among American Blacks.
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