The surname Shepperd
An occupational surname, carried by 1,179 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S163
Origin
From shepherd.
Shepperd is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,179 people named Shepperd in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 261,871 Americans. That is down 22% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,509.
Who is named Shepperd
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
79% of people named Shepperd identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 79%
- Black (not Hispanic) 15%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
- Two or more races 1.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Shepperd has the Soundex code S163, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S163.
Questions
- Where does the surname Shepperd come from?
- From shepherd.
- How common is the surname Shepperd?
- 1,179 people in the United States had the surname Shepperd in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 261,871 Americans. It ranked 22,000th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Shepperd?
- In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Shepperd identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
- What type of surname is Shepperd?
- Shepperd is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
- Is the surname Shepperd getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,509 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,179 in 2010, down 22%.