Re: Origin of "Floyd"

Mark J. Reed wrote:

>This just occurred to me, but is the English (or is it only American?)
>name "Floyd" by any chance a corruption of Welsh "Lloyd"?  Hearing
>[K] as [fl] seems reasonable for sn Anglophone . . .
>
>
Well, 'Lloyd', I believe, comes from Welsh 'Llwyd'.  But I wouldn't
doubt it.  Shakespeare spelt 'Llewelyn' as 'Fluellen', I believe, in
Henry V.