Entry № 9556 · English origin

Shepherd Shepherd — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHEP-erd /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Sheep keeper (Cybill Shepherd; Grey's Anatomy)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "sheep keeper (cybill shepherd; grey's anatomy)".

Shepherd is from the Old English scēap-hierde — sheep keeper. Meredith Grey-Shepherd — main character of Grey's Anatomy. Charity Shepherd — Hamilton musical reference. Allan Shepherd — multiple American figures.

Sheep keeper (Cybill Shepherd; Grey's Anatomy) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Shepherd
Transliteration
Shepherd
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃɛp.ərd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shepherd stands.

Shepherd does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Shepherds before her.

Real people
Cybill Shepherd
American actress + 3 Golden Globes.
born 1950
In fiction
Derek Shepherd
ABC's Grey's Anatomy.
2005

Names connected to Shepherd.

The number behind Shepherd.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shepherd reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.