Gloyd
Howard Kay Gloyd was an American herpetologist who is credited with describing several new species and subspecies of reptiles, such as the Florida cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti.
Meaning & Origin of Gloyd
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Howard Kay Gloyd was an American herpetologist who is credited with describing several new species and subspecies of reptiles, such as the Florida cottonmouth, Agkistrodon piscivorus conanti.
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The Story of Gloyd
The earliest SSA record of Gloyd as a baby boy name dates back to 1914, when 5 babies received it. 1919 was its biggest year on record, with 8 newborns named Gloyd — #3,115 in the national rankings. About 47% of every Gloyd on record arrived during the 1920s, its defining decade. Gloyd last appeared in the published SSA data in 1947, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 77 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1910s to the 2020s.
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Names that sound like Gloyd
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About the name Gloyd
Gloyd is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1914 and has accumulated 77 births in the dataset. Gloyd's peak popularity came in 1919 when it ranked #3,115. Use the chart and map above to compare Gloyd's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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