Lloyd

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Lloyd

  • /lɔɪd/ UK

Rhymes with -ɔɪd

Where it comes from

From Welsh llwyd (“grey, grey-haired”).

proper noun Lloyds

  1. countable, uncountable A surname from Welsh, from a nickname for someone with grey hair. a ... young saxophonist named Charles Lloyd
  2. countable, uncountable A male given name transferred from the surname. According to a list of participants on the forum’s website, the CEOs of Goldman Sachs (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) still plan to go. Both banks declined to comment. But a person familiar with the situation said Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein was “unlikely to attend.”
  3. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jefferson County, Florida.
  4. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Greenup County, Kentucky.
  5. countable, uncountable An unincorporated community in Blaine County, Montana.
  6. countable, uncountable A town in Ulster County, New York.
  7. countable, uncountable A former settlement in Portage County, Ohio.
  8. countable, uncountable A suburb of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

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Closest in meaning: floyd, jones, vince, dwight, wright, cleveland, hapag, grey, gray, silver, slate, hoary, ashen, drab, dun, dingy

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"Lloyd." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/lloyd. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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Lloyd. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/lloyd

Chicago

"Lloyd." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/lloyd.

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@misc{lloyd_2026,
  title = {Lloyd},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lloyd},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}