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Shields

in the US

There are 41,195 people with the last name "Shields" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Shields 606
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  1. is 602nd most common Singleton
  2. is 603rd most common Parrish
  3. is 604th most common Boyer
  4. is 605th most common Glenn
  5. is 606th most common Shields
  6. is 607th most common Hensley
  7. is 608th most common Savage
  8. is 609th most common Baxter
  9. is 610th most common Golden

Similar Names and Nicknames

Shield, Shieh, Shier, Shiels, Shiel, Shiers, Shiell, Shierling, Shie, Scielzo

Most Common First Names for Shields

John, James, Robert, Michael, William, David, Mary, Thomas, Richard, Charles

Meaning & History

Irish: reduced form of O’Shields, an alternative Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Siadhail‘descendant of Siadhal’.

Northern English and Scottish: habitational name from a pair of places in Northumberland and County Durham (now both in Tyne and Wear) called North and South Shields, named with Middle English schele ‘shed’, ‘hut’, ‘shelter’. There has been much confusion between Shields and Shield and their variants.

Recent Searches for "Shields" in the US

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