Lloyd

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UK/lɔɪd/

proper noun

A surname from Welsh, from a nickname for someone with grey hair.

CommonScrabble 9

Meanings

proper nounLloyd (countable and uncountable, plural Lloyds)

plural Lloyds

  1. countableuncountableA surname from Welsh, from a nickname for someone with grey hair.

    a ... young saxophonist named Charles Lloyd

    1967 June 9, Richard Saltonstall Jr., “New Surge for a Tired Old Idiom”, in LIFE
  2. countableuncountableA 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. A number of places in the United States:
    1. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Blaine County, Montana.
    2. countableuncountableA town in Ulster County, New York.
    3. countableuncountableA former settlement in Portage County, Ohio.
  4. countableuncountableA suburb of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia.

Origin

  1. Welshllwyd“grey, grey-haired”
  2. EnglishLloyd

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

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Cite this entry
APA

Lloyd. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lloyd

MLA

“Lloyd.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lloyd. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Lloyd,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lloyd.

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