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herd Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish and English: variant spelling of Heard.
  2. Dutch: variant of Herder.
  3. Dutch: from Middle Dutch hert, herte ‘hart’, ‘stag’; probably a nickname for someone who was fleet of foot, or a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a deer.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of herd Families in the US in 1920
Number of herd families
 38-74
 13-37		 1-12
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 136 - Messages: 355
ThreadAuthorReplies
Herd Christine Montgomery 2
He(a)rds of Keith, Scotland Fiona Neil 8
Help Herd Family callen13 0
David Herd/Hurd and Heather Petit/e marriage cgrey161 24
Herd of Denton County Texas Talley/Chastain/Hankins devinesa 2
ELijah Herd Tn. Audra Ridener 27
John H. Herd/Hurd bonbon1936 2
Herd/Hurds of NY hartnettd 1
HERD Rhoda C 1877 1957 Mother t42swisher_dencotx 0
HERD Mitchel H 1864 1941 Father t42swisher_dencotx 0
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