Boy
Boyd
Rooted in Gaelic, Boyd is a boy's name that means "Possibly yellow-haired (Gaelic buidhe)". It is not as common as it was in the 1920s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. The name's best year yet was 1922.
ScottishScottish
GaelicPossibly "yellow-haired" (Gaelic "buidhe")
Births by decade
1900s
510
1910s
2,802
1920s
4,595
1930s
3,959
1940s
3,740
1950s
3,713
1960s
3,138
1970s
1,478
1980s
743
1990s
544
2000s
457
2010s
641
Peaked in the 1920s · 26,320 total U.S. births since 1900