Last Name BLOYD

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Meaning The son of Lloyd, from Ap-Lloyd. Lloyd is found as Floyd, Flood, and Flud. The patronymic bacame in a similar way Bloyd, Blood, and Blud.
Ap-Lloyd, i.e. the son of Lloyd (Blood). Often converted to Floyd, showing the difficulty to English people of pronouncing the Ll in Lloyd.
Origin Welsh, Irish

Rank 27,821 (2000 US census) 24,009 (1990 US census)
Count 813 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 95.45%, or 776 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • undisclosed % as black,
  • 0.62%, or 5 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.97%, or 16 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.11%, or 9 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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Longest last names

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