Shepherd
The 2025 national count puts Shepherd at #246, with the curve still pointing up. An old entry (1886) having its biggest moment now, with 7,785 American bearers across the record.
Shepherd’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Shepherd, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Shepherd since 1886
Shepherd is at its all-time peak right now: #246 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Shepherd is most common
The state that gives Shepherd most often, per boys born there, is Kentucky (0.26% in 2025); Oklahoma and Tennessee are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Shepherd
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Simon
#230 in 2025 · Hebrew
Saylor
#217 in 2025
Selah
#216 in 2025
Stevie
#203 in 2025
Sutton
#181 in 2025
Skylar
#167 in 2025
Sage
#160 in 2025
Sloane
#141 in 2025
Browse: names starting with S · all names
About Shepherd
How common is Shepherd today?
The 2025 national count puts Shepherd at #246, with the curve still pointing up. The chart above draws the whole run since 1886, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Shepherd mean?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Shepherd keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
What names go with Shepherd?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Simon, Saylor and Selah, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Shepherd’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Shepherd earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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