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Lloyd

/lɔɪd/

Lloyd proper noun: a surname from Welsh, from a nickname for someone with grey hair.

Proper noun

Lloyd (countable and uncountable, plural Lloyds)

  1. A surname from Welsh, from a nickname for someone with grey hair.
    • a ... young saxophonist named Charles Lloyd1967 June 9, Richard Saltonstall Jr., “New Surge for a Tired Old Idiom”, in LIFE
  2. 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.”2014 May 2, Mark Thompson and Aaron Smith, “U.S. presses CEOs to skip Russia’s Davos”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2025
  3. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Jefferson County, Florida.
  4. An unincorporated community in Greenup County, Kentucky.
  5. An unincorporated community in Blaine County, Montana.
  6. A town in Ulster County, New York.
  7. A former settlement in Portage County, Ohio.
  8. A suburb of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

Forms of Lloyd

pluralLloyds

Origin of Lloyd

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

Words formed from Lloyd

Words that rhyme with Lloyd

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Questions about Lloyd

What does Lloyd mean?
Lloyd means a surname from Welsh, from a nickname for someone with grey hair.
What part of speech is Lloyd?
Lloyd is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Lloyd?
Lloyd is pronounced /lɔɪd/ (UK).

Words near Lloyd in the dictionary

  1. Llorenses
  2. Llorente
  3. Llorentes
  4. Llorico
  5. Llowalong
  6. Lloyd
  7. Lloyd's
  8. Lloyd's bushtit
  9. Lloyd-Georgian
  10. Lloydie
  11. Lloydminster

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