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The name Floyd is of Welsh origin, and means gray hair. The table below indicates the number of times the name Floyd has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Floyd**
Use of the Name Floyd for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
151,615	30,451	5,134	566	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Floyd has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Floyd last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1998, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Floyd**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	75	206
1881	78	179
1882	76	231
1883	73	218
1884	70	263
1885	70	259
1886	66	275	794	9
1887	73	232
1888	67	302
1889	63	313	768	12
1890	60	341
1891	53	336
1892	52	420
1893	59	351	981	10
1894	46	445
1895	51	427
1896	55	396
1897	48	451
1898	51	434
1899	52	356
1900	48	556
1901	45	424
1902	47	471
1903	46	472
1904	52	446
1905	44	522
1906	54	458
1907	53	521
1908	55	529
1909	53	569
1910	55	686
1911	57	731
1912	60	1,433
1913	58	1,741
1914	58	2,087
1915	59	2,831
1916	60	2,784
1917	62	2,816
1918	61	3,242
1919	59	3,121
1920	61	3,253
1921	63	3,251
1922	61	3,225
1923	64	3,142
1924	66	3,158
1925	58	3,521
1926	53	3,621
1927	53	3,538
1928	54	3,342
1929	59	3,066
1930	61	3,070
1931	67	2,695
1932	68	2,659
1933	69	2,533
1934	73	2,526
1935	76	2,505
1936	86	2,232
1937	80	2,378
1938	96	2,145
1939	94	2,092
1940	102	2,016
1941	102	2,093
1942	113	2,174
1943	112	2,223
1944	110	2,079
1945	115	1,972
1946	121	2,111
1947	129	2,216
1948	136	2,024
1949	133	2,021
1950	142	1,893
1951	140	1,914
1952	149	1,870
1953	152	1,862
1954	152	1,869
1955	165	1,709
1956	172	1,725
1957	170	1,825
1958	179	1,621
1959	191	1,543
1960	198	1,466
1961	203	1,435
1962	209	1,338
1963	216	1,298
1964	219	1,196
1965	225	1,053
1966	228	943
1967	237	870
1968	249	828
1969	262	797
1970	282	748
1971	281	735
1972	303	611
1973	297	603
1974	310	590
1975	334	520
1976	360	448
1977	355	488
1978	352	478
1979	380	449
1980	386	442
1981	390	432
1982	421	394
1983	438	356
1984	465	329
1985	497	304
1986	483	327
1987	491	325
1988	554	274
1989	570	290
1990	640	250
1991	649	244
1992	740	194
1993	690	224
1994	783	183
1995	897	149
1996	961	133
1997	933	144
1998	981	140
Totals:		151,615		31

During the last 125 years, parents have used Floyd as a boy's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Floyd appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 119 times during the last 125 years.

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