as a Last Name
- 64,747
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Shepherd
Meaning & Origins
English: from Middle English schepherde ‘shepherd’ (composed of words meaning ‘sheep’ + ‘herdsman’ or ‘guardian’), hence an occupational name for a shepherd. This English form of the name has absorbed cognates and equivalents from several other languages (for forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988).
| 512th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 64,747
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Shepherd per capita
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