Shepherd

Where Shepherd comes from

From shepherd.
— Wiktionary's entry for Shepherd
Along the way
  1. 1811
    Shepherd Leffler born
    American politician
  2. 1874
    Shepherd Ivory Franz born
    American psychologist and the first chairman of the psychology department at the University of California
  3. 1886
    First appearance
    #959 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2025
    Peak, #246
    1,408 babies named Shepherd — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Shepherd Leffler · American politician, 1811–1879
  • Shepherd Ivory Franz · American psychologist and the first chairman of the psychology department at the University of California, 1874–1933
  • Shepherd Bushiri · Christian evangelical preacher from Malawi, born 1983
  • Shepherd Clark · American figure skater, born 1971
  • Shepherd Murape · Zimbabwean footballer

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.