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shepard Name Meaning and History

  1. English: variant spelling of Shepherd.
  2. Americanized form of some Jewish surname sounding like or meaning ‘shepherd’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of shepard Families in the US in 1920
Number of shepard families
 268-534
 90-267
 1-89
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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