Shepherd
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #246 for boys in 2025, 1,408 births
Given to boys 99.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 1,408 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 7,785since 1886
Shepherd over time
Rank among boys' names. Shepherd has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | #246 | 1,408 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | #310 | 1,099 |
| 2023 | — | #405 | 789 | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | #491 | 619 |
| 2021 | — | #526 | 558 | |
| 2020 | — | #594 | 463 | |
| 2019 | — | #624 | 434 | |
| 2018 | — | #716 | 339 | |
| 2017 | — | #790 | 293 | |
| 2016 | — | #847 | 265 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,105 | 174 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,153 | 164 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,636 | 93 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,551 | 102 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #1,533 | 103 |
| 2010 | — | #1,558 | 102 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,990 | 70 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,104 | 65 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,250 | 34 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,881 | 39 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,172 | 32 | |
| 2004 | — | #7,536 | 9 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,616 | 17 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,055 | 9 | |
| 2001 | — | #9,243 | 6 | |
| 2000 | — | #7,416 | 8 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,159 | 12 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,100 | 9 | |
| 1996 | — | #7,136 | 7 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,501 | 10 | |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
| 1993 | — | — | ||
| 1992 | — | — | ||
| 1991 | — | — | ||
| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,615 | 8 | |
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | — | ||
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | — | — | ||
| 1984 | — | — | ||
| 1983 | — | — | ||
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | — | — | ||
| 1980 | — | — | ||
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,582 | 7 | |
| 1976 | — | — | ||
| 1975 | — | #3,659 | 9 | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | — | ||
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
| 1970 | — | #2,621 | 13 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,595 | 7 | |
| 1968 | — | #3,107 | 8 | |
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #2,986 | 8 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,617 | 10 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
| 1962 | — | — | ||
| 1961 | — | #2,706 | 10 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,665 | 6 | |
| 1959 | — | #3,619 | 6 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,559 | 6 | |
| 1957 | — | — | ||
| 1956 | — | #2,628 | 10 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,764 | 9 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,592 | 10 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,680 | 9 | |
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | — | — | ||
| 1949 | — | #2,453 | 10 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,733 | 5 | |
| 1946 | — | #1,884 | 15 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,862 | 7 | |
| 1943 | — | #3,538 | 5 | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,459 | 5 | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #3,361 | 6 | |
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | #3,022 | 8 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,766 | 9 | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | #2,912 | 9 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,566 | 11 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,755 | 10 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,772 | 10 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,252 | 8 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,152 | 15 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,602 | 11 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,543 | 11 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,956 | 8 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,730 | 9 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,651 | 7 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,821 | 5 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
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| 1890 | — | — | ||
| 1889 | — | — | ||
| 1888 | — | #1,031 | 5 | |
| 1887 | — | #819 | 6 | |
| 1886 | — | #959 | 5 | |
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five boys were named Shepherd! It came in at #959, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1888–1913, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Shepherd
- 64 spots since 2024 (#310 → #246)
- 348 spots since 2020 (#594 → #246)
- 859 spots since 2015 (#1,105 → #246)
- Biggest jump: 258 spots in 2016 (#1,105 → #847)
- Biggest drop: 212 spots in 1888 (#819 → #1,031)
- Debuted 1886
- Peaked 2025 at #246 (1,408 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2016–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,213 boys born in 2025 were named Shepherd (0.08%)
- 63.4% of all boys named Shepherd (4,936) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 16 | #819 (1887) | #936 |
| 1890s | 0 | — | — |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 61 | #2,543 (1918) | #2,788 |
| 1920s | 90 | #2,152 (1921) | #2,809 |
| 1930s | 25 | #3,022 (1930) | #3,277 |
| 1940s | 64 | #1,884 (1946) | #3,083 |
| 1950s | 55 | #2,592 (1954) | #3,091 |
| 1960s | 60 | #2,617 (1965) | #3,291 |
| 1970s | 48 | #2,621 (1970) | #4,343 |
| 1980s | 15 | #5,003 (1982) | #5,309 |
| 1990s | 57 | #5,159 (1998) | #6,716 |
| 2000s | 289 | #1,990 (2009) | #4,926 |
| 2010s | 2,069 | #624 (2019) | #1,151 |
| 2020s | 4,936 | #246 (2025) | #429 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shepherd in 2011
Top girls' names in 2011
Top boys' names in 2011
More about 2011
girls
1,759,066 girls got a published name in 2011; 1 in 351,813 of them was named Shepherd, which outranked 14.4% of the 19,590 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 18,439 of them was named Shepherd, which outranked 89.3% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,524Latrell104
- #1,524Ryden104
- #1,524Shia104
- #1,533Shepherd103
- #1,533Ayush103
- #1,533Calen103
- #1,533Deonte103
- #1,544Ahmir102
- #1,544Braylan102
- #1,544Canyon102
Tied with 10 names at #1,533; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.