Floyd (given name)

Floyd is a masculine Anglo-Welsh given name deriving from the Welsh Llwyd (“gray, gray-haired”) and thus cognate with Lloyd.

Notable people with this name include:

• Floyd Abrams (born 1936), American attorney
• Floyd Bannister (born 1955), retired Major League Baseball pitcher
• Floyd Collins (1887–1925), American pioneer caver
• Floyd Council (1911–1976), American blues musician
• Floyd Cramer (1933–1997), American pianist
• Floyd Favors (born 1963), American boxer
• Floyd Gottfredson (1905–1986), American cartoonist best known for his work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip
• Floyd Heard (born 1966), American track and field sprinter
• Floyd Hudlow (1943–2021), American football player
• Floyd Jones (1917–1989), American blues singer
• Floyd Landis (born 1975), American cyclist
• Floyd Levine (born 1932), American film and television actor
• Floyd Little (1942–2021), American football halfback
• Floyd Mayweather Jr. (born 1977), American five-division boxing champion
• Floyd Mayweather Sr., American welterweight boxer and trainer
• Floyd MacMillan Davis (1896–1966), American painter and illustrator
• Floyd Odlum (1892–1976), American lawyer and businessman
• Floyd B. Olson (1891–1936), Governor of Minnesota
• Floyd Patterson (1935–2006), two-time world heavyweight boxing champion
• Floyd D. Rose, inventor of Floyd Rose guitar bridge
• Floyd Simmons (1923–2008), American athlete
• Floyd Simmons (American football) (1925–1996), American football player
• Floyd Smart (1894–1955), American athlete
• Floyd Talbert (1923-1982), member of Easy Company, Band of Brothers.
• Floyd Tillman (1914–2003), American country musician
• Floyd Vivino (born 1951), American comedian known as Uncle Floyd

Fictional characters:

• Dr. Floyd Charles, a character in the Left Behind book series
• Floyd Lawson, barber in the TV show The Andy Griffith Show
• Floyd Lawton aka Deadshot, supervillain/antihero assassin in DC Comics and enemy of Batman
• Floyd Malloy, antagonist in 1985 animated show M.A.S.K. (TV series)
• Floyd Pepper, a puppet character on the TV series The Muppet Show
• Floyd, Dick's roommate, True Romance