How about the name Floyd; does anybody know were it origananted from?

Question

There are many people in my family with the first name of Floyd, James, Conda, and Ruby

Answer 1

FLOYD  

Gender: Male

Origin: Welsh

Meaning: The Hollow  

FLOYD

Origin: Welsh

Meaning:  Grey

Form of: Lloyd

Answer 2

It's a variant spelling of the Welsh surname "Lloyd" which means "grey". Most English people nowadays pronounce "Lloyd" as "Loyd", but in Welsh the double L is correctly pronounced something like "khl". This is so difficult for the average English person to say that "Floyd" was about the closest they could get to pronouncing  "Lloyd" properly.

Answer 3

Floyd  

First name origins & meanings:

Welsh: The hollow

Old Welsh: Gray-haired

First name variations: Floid, Floyde, Loyd, Lloyd

James  

First name origin & meaning:

Hebrew: Supplanter, substitute; the patron saint of Spain

First name variations: Jaymes, Jaime, Jaymie, Jamy, Jaimie, Jamesy, Jameson, Jamey, Jan, Jay, Jim, Jimmy, Jimmie, Jimbo, Diego, Giacomo, Seamus, Sheamus, Shamus, Hamish, Santiago, Jaemes, Jaimes, Jaemie, Jaemy, Jaimie, Jame, Jameyel, Jami, Jamia, Jamiah, Jamian, Jamiee, Jamme, Jammey, Jammie, Jammy, Jamye, Jameze, Jamze, Jamieson, Jamison, Jamiesen

Ruby  

First name origin & meaning:

French: Red gem

First name variations: Rubie, Rubee, Rubia, Rubina

Sorry, can't find Conda as a first name.

Answer 4

British Isles surnames

Floyd is either variant spelling of the Scottish name Flood or the Welsh name Lloyd which means grey

Answer 5

I found this for you .

Surname: Floyd

This unusual name is from the Welsh "Lloyd" a nickname distinguishing someone who was grey-haired, derived from the Welsh "llwyd", meaning grey. The name Floyd represents the English attempt to replicate the Welsh pronunciation of "Lloyd". Nicknames were very often used as a basis for surnames in medieval England, and in this case the nickname may also have applied to one who habitually wore grey clothes. The first recording of the name "Lloyd" is that of one "Richard Loyt", in the Worcestershire Subsidy Rolls of 1327. William Floyd (1734 - 1821) was one of the signatories of the American Declaration of independence. His great-grandfather Richard Floyd emigrated from Wales in the 17th Century. Sir John Floyd (1748 - 1818) pursued a brilliant military career in India, distinguishing himself particularly in the wars against Tippoo Sultan; he was created general in 1812, and baronet in 1816. His Coat of Arms is a black shield charged with a silver lion rampant regaurdant; on a gold chief embattled is a sword erect proper, pommel and hilt gold, enfiled with a red eastern crown between two tigers' faces also proper. A silver lion rampant regaurdant, murally crowned red, bearing a flag, representing the standard of Tippoo Sultan, flowing to the sinister proper, is on the Crest. The Motto "Patiens pulveris atque solis" translates as "Patient of dust and sun". The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard Floyd, which was dated 1509, in "Letters and Papers of the reign of King Henry V111", during the reign of King Henry V111, known as "Bluff King Hal", 1509 - 1547. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

James

English and Scottish form of the name borne in the New Testament by two of Christ's disciples, James son of Zebedee and James son of Alphaeus. This form comes from Late Latin Iacomus, a variant of Iacobus, Latin form of the New Testament Greek name Iakobos. This is the same name as Old Testament Jacob (Hebrew Yaakov). For many centuries now it has been thought of in the English-speaking world and elsewhere as a distinct name, but in some other cultures, e.g. French, no distinction is made.

In Britain, James is a royal name that from the beginning of the 15th century onwards has been associated particularly with the Scottish house of Stewart: James I of Scotland (1394–1437; ruled 1424–37) was a patron of the arts and a noted poet, as well as an energetic monarch. King James VI of Scotland (1566–1625; reigned 1567–1625) succeeded to the throne of England in 1603. His grandson, James II of England (1633–1701; reigned 1685–8) was a Roman Catholic, deposed in 1688 in favour of his Protestant daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange. From then on he, his son (also called James), and his grandson Charles (“Bonnie Prince Charlie”) made various unsuccessful attempts to recover the English throne. Their supporters were known as Jacobites (from Jacobus, Latin form of James), and the name James became for a while particularly associated with Roman Catholicism on the one hand, and Highland opposition to the English government on the other. It is now widely used by people of many different creeds and nationalities.

Cognates: French: Jacques. Italian: Giacomo. Spanish: Jaime. Catalan: Jaume. Galician: Xaime. Irish: Séamas, Séamus, Seumas, Seumus (Gaelic); Shamus (Anglicized). Scottish: Seumas (Gaelic); Hamish (Anglicized). Cornish: Jago. See also Jem.

Short form: English: Jim.

Pet form: English, Scottish: Jimmy, Jimmie.

Feminine form: Scottish: Jamesina. See also Jamie.

Ruby

English: from the vocabulary word for the gemstone (Latin rubinus, from rubeus red). The name was chiefly common in the late 19th century and up to the middle of the 20th. It is now out of fashion.

Sorry I couldn't find anything for the name Conda.