Lloyd (given name)
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The name Lloyd is a variation of the Welsh
word llwyd or clwyd, which means "grey" or "brown" (Llwyd is also used as a personal name). The double-L represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
of Welsh, and was sometimes also represented as fl, yielding the related name Floyd
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Welsh language
Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...
word llwyd or clwyd, which means "grey" or "brown" (Llwyd is also used as a personal name). The double-L represents the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
Voiceless alveolar lateral fricative
The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless dental, alveolar, and postalveolar fricatives is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is K...
of Welsh, and was sometimes also represented as fl, yielding the related name Floyd
Floyd
Floyd is either a variant spelling of the Scottish name Flood or the Welsh name Lloyd which means grey, and may refer to:-Places in the United States:* Floyd, Arkansas* Floyd, California **Floyd, Fresno County, California...
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Real people
- Lloyd BanksLloyd BanksChristopher Charles Lloyd , better known by his stage name Lloyd Banks, is an American rapper and member of the rap group G-Unit. Raised in South Jamaica, Queens, he dropped out of high school in 1998. G-Unit released two albums, Beg for Mercy in 2003 and T.O.S. in 2008...
(born Christopher Charles Lloyd), American rapper - Lloyd BentsenLloyd BentsenLloyd Millard Bentsen, Jr. was a four-term United States senator from Texas and the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President in 1988 on the Michael Dukakis ticket. He also served in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1955. In his later political life, he was Chairman of the Senate...
, United States Senator and Secretary of the Treasury - Lloyd BlankfeinLloyd BlankfeinLloyd Craig Blankfein is an American business executive. He is currently the CEO and Chairman of Goldman Sachs. He has been in this position since the May 31, 2006 nomination of former CEO Henry Paulson as Secretary of the Treasury under George W...
, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Goldman Sachs - Lloyd BridgesLloyd BridgesLloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. was an American actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. Bridges is best known for his role of Mike Nelson in Sea Hunt, the most-popular syndicated American TV series in 1958...
, American actor - Lloyd BurnsLloyd BurnsLloyd Burns is a Wales international rugby union player. Burns plays in the hooker position and currently plays his club rugby for Newport Gwent Dragons having made his debut in the 2008–09 season. He previously played for Pontypool RFC and Cross Keys RFC...
, Wales international rugby union player - Lloyd CarrLloyd CarrLloyd H. Carr is a former American football player and coach. He served as the head coach at the University of Michigan from 1995 through the 2007 season. Under Carr, the Wolverines compiled a record of 122–40 and won or shared five Big Ten Conference titles...
, American college football coach - Lloyd ColeLloyd ColeLloyd Cole is an English singer and songwriter, known for his role as lead singer of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions from 1984 to 1989, and for his subsequent solo work.-Early life:...
, English singer and songwriter - Lloyd DoyleyLloyd DoyleyLloyd Colin Doyley is an English footballer who plays for Watford as a defender. He is primarily a right-back, but can also play as a centre-back and left-back. He is the longest-serving current player for the Hornets, and is contracted until 2012.- Watford : Doyley was born in Whitechapel, London...
, English football player. - Loyd GrossmanLoyd GrossmanLoyd Daniel Gilman Grossman, OBE, FSA is an American-British television presenter, chef and musician who has mainly worked in the UK.- Early life, education and honours :...
, Anglo-American television presenter and chef - Lloyd HoneyghanLloyd HoneyghanLloyd Honeyghan is a retired British boxer. Born in Jamaica, he was WBC/WBA & IBF welterweight champion from 1986 to 1987. and WBC welterweight champion from 1988 to 1989....
, Retired British/Jamaican boxer - Lloyd Lindsay YoungLloyd Lindsay YoungLloyd Lindsay Young is a television weatherman who built a cult following of sorts with his over-the-top delivery and antics. He is the father of former KGET-TV weatherman George Lindsay Young, with whom he worked for several years in New York....
, American television weatherman - Lloyd MetzlerLloyd MetzlerLloyd Appleton Metzler was an American economist best known for his contributions to international trade theory. He was born at Lost Springs, Kansas in 1913. Although most of his career was spent at the University of Chicago, he was not a member of the Chicago school, but rather a Keynesian...
, American economist - Lloyd (singer)Lloyd (singer)Lloyd Polite, Jr. , who performs under the mononym Lloyd, is an American R&B recording artist, who experienced as a member of the group N-Toon before embarking on a solo career in 2004....
(born Lloyd Harlin Polite, Jr.), American R&B singer - Lloyd RobertsonLloyd RobertsonLloyd Robertson, OC is the currently the co-host of CTV's weekly magazine series, W5. Robertson previously served as the chief anchor and senior editor of CTV's national evening newscast, CTV News with Lloyd Robertson, until September, 2011, when he retired from the CTV National News...
, veteran Canadian television news anchor (CTV) - Lloyd ThomasLloyd ThomasLloyd Thomas was an aviator in United States Navy who was killed in action in World War II during the Battle of Midway while attacking a Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier.-Biography:...
, American naval officer - Lloyd Williams (rugby player)Lloyd Williams (rugby player)Lloyd Hugh Williams was a Welsh international rugby union player. He captained the Wales national rugby union team on three occasions in 1961-62. Williams played his club rugby for Cardiff RFC and was the younger brother of another Welsh international rugby union player and captain, Bleddyn...
, born 1933, Wales international rugby union player - Lloyd Williams (rugby union)Lloyd Williams (rugby union)Lloyd Williams is a Wales international rugby union player. A scrum-half, he plays club rugby for Cardiff Blues regional team. He went to Ysgol Gyfun Bro Morgannwg and his father is former Wales international scrum-half Brynmor Williams....
, born 1989, Wales international rugby union player
- David Lloyd GeorgeDavid Lloyd GeorgeDavid Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman...
, British war-time Prime Minister - Sir Alan Lloyd HodgkinAlan Lloyd HodgkinSir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, OM, KBE, PRS was a British physiologist and biophysicist, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Huxley and John Eccles....
, British physiologist, biophysicist and Nobel Prize winner - David Lloyd JohnstonDavid Lloyd JohnstonDavid Lloyd Johnston is a Canadian academic, author and statesman who is the current Governor General of Canada, the 28th since Canadian Confederation....
, Canadian academic and Governor General of Canada since October 1, 2010 - Roger Lloyd PackRoger Lloyd PackRoger Lloyd-Pack is an English actor known for his roles in the TV shows The Vicar of Dibley, Only Fools and Horses and The Old Guys.-Career:...
, British actor - Andrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd WebberAndrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...
, British composer - Frank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd WrightFrank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 500 works. Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture...
, American architect