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.

People named Lloyd

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• Llwyd ap Cil Coed, a character in the Mabinogi
• Lloyd Banks, a rapper who is part of G-Unit
• Lloyd Bentsen, a former United States Senator and Secretary of the Treasury
• Lloyd Polite (more commonly referred to as just Lloyd), an R&B singer
• Lloyd Irving, a character in the video game Tales of Symphonia.
• Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
• Andrew Lloyd Webber, British composer
• Christopher Lloyd, actor
• David Lloyd George, British politician
• Edward Lloyd coffeehouse owner (see also below for Lloyd's)
  
• Edward Lloyd, disambiguation
• Edward Llwyd, Welsh philologist
• Frank Lloyd Wright, United States architect
• Genevieve Lloyd, philosopher
• George Lloyd, British composer
• George Ambrose Lloyd, 1st Baron Lloyd, British High Commissioner of Egypt
• Jake Lloyd, actor
• John Lloyd (historian)
• John Uri Lloyd, Pharmacist (Eclectic Medicine),
• John Lloyd (tennis player)
• John Lloyd (writer)
• Julian Lloyd Webber, composer and cellist
• Harold Lloyd, actor
• Lulu Hull Lloyd, namesake of Caltech's Lloyd House
• Richard Lloyd
• Robert Lloyd (poet), English poet
• Robert Lloyd (singer), English opera singer (see de:Robert Lloyd)
• Sabrina Lloyd, actor
• Selwyn Lloyd, British politician
• Seth Lloyd, Professor at MIT
• Terry Lloyd

Institutions named Lloyd

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• Named for the coffeehouse of Edward Lloyd in London:
  • Lloyd's of London, insurance market
  • Lloyd's List, journal on shipping
  • Lloyd's Register, ship classification and risk management organisation
    
• Lloyd, a former German automobile brand from the Borgward group of Bremen
• Lloyd cars, a former British automobile brand
• Lloyds TSB Group plc, a British financial institution
• Lloyd Wise, a group of intellectual property attorney firms based in England and Asia

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