Cloyd

Where Cloyd comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Cloyd.

Cloyd through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #526 among boys, with 12 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1892
    Peak, #445
    19 babies named Cloyd, its best rank.
  3. 1896
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #900.
  4. 1927
    Cloyd Boyer born
    American baseball player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname
Namesakes
  • Cloyd Boyer · American baseball player, 1927–2021

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.