as a First Name
Transferred use of the common Irish and Scottish surname, which is of uncertain derivation. It may originally have been a local name from the island of Bute in the Firth of Clyde, known in Gaelic as Bod (genitive case Bóid). The first known bearer of the surname is Robertus de Boyd, recorded in Scotland in the early 13th century.
| 1,254th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 22,390
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Utah
- has the most people named Boyd per capita
- 1922
- marked the height of its popularity
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