How common is the surname Shedd?

3,868 people in the United States had the surname Shedd in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 79,820 Americans. It ranked 8,512th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Shedd getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,930 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,868 in 2010, down 1.6%.

The surname Shedd

An English place surname, carried by 3,868 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Shedd is more common than 94.8% of them.

Origin

English origin

Topographic surname for someone who lived in a hovel, from Middle English schade (“shade, shadow; shad”).

Shedd is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,868 people named Shedd in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 79,820 Americans. That is down 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,930.

#8,512

rank among US surnames

3,868

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

-1.6%

change since 2000 (was #7,801)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,506	Aman	3,872	79,738
#8,509	Segarra	3,871	79,759
#8,511	Sainz	3,869	79,800
#8,512	Shedd	3,868	79,820
#8,517	Lepage	3,865	79,882

Who is named Shedd

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

89% of people named Shedd identified as white (not Hispanic), 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 89%
Black (not Hispanic) 6.2%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.7%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Shed

Surnames that sound like Shedd

Shedd has the Soundex code S300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S300.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Shedd come from?: Topographic surname for someone who lived in a hovel, from Middle English schade (“shade, shadow; shad”).
How common is the surname Shedd?: 3,868 people in the United States had the surname Shedd in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 79,820 Americans. It ranked 8,512th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Shedd?: In the 2010 Census, 89% of people named Shedd identified as white (not Hispanic), and 6.2% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Shedd?: Shedd is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Shedd getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,930 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,868 in 2010, down 1.6%.
What are other spellings of Shedd?: Shed.