Boyd (surname)

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Boyd
Family name

Location of the Isle of Bute.
Region of origin Scotland
Related names Boid; Bhoid
Clan affiliations Clan Boyd

Boyd is a Scottish surname. It originated from a habitational name from the island of Bute, located in the Firth of Clyde.[1][2] The surname was very common in Edinburgh in the 17th century.[2] The Scottish Gaelic form of the surname is Boid (masculine),[3] and Bhoid (feminine).

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  • Harriet Boyd-Hawes, American archaeologist

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  • Nancy Boyd, pseudonym of American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Neal E. Boyd, American opera singer and 2008 America's Got Talent winner
  • Neva Boyd, American educator
  • Norma Elizabeth Boyd, American sorority organiser

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References

  1. ↑ Learn about the family history of your surname, Ancestry.com, retrieved 25 September 2010  which cited Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-508137-4.  for the surname "Erskine".
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Black, George Fraser (1946), The Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning, and History, New York: New York Public Library, pp. 94–95 
  3. ↑ Robertson, Boyd; Taylor, Iain (2003), Teach Yourself Gaelic, Teach Yourself, pp. 341–342 
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