Given name & surname
Cloyd
“one who works with nails”
Cloyd is a variant of Cloy. One French interpretation is “one who works with nails.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Cloyd is a variant of Cloy. One French interpretation is “one who works with nails.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Cloyd is a variant of Cloy. An origin associated with Cloy is French.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Cloyd through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 3,050
- 3,050 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1918
- 91 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1993. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 91 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 917 as a first name in 2020; 3,323 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Similar names
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