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shepherd Name Meaning and History

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).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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shepherd Family Facts

Distribution of shepherd Families in the US in 1920
Number of shepherd families
 217-431
 73-216
 1-72
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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