Lloyd surname meaning

Lloyd is a Welsh surname from llwyd, meaning “grey” and sometimes covering brownish or mouse-coloured shades. It began as a descriptive byname that could refer to hair, complexion, clothing, or age, then became a hereditary surname. Llwyd is the Welsh form; Lloyd is the familiar anglicized spelling, and Floyd can represent a related spelling history in some records. The colour word does not identify one ancestor or one place. Nickname is the catalog type, with likely confidence because medieval records rarely tell us which feature prompted the original description.