Shepherd
Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha2025 rank
#246
up +65 places
2025 births
1,408
up +309 births
All-time births
7,785
18% of them in 2025
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2025
- 1,408 births
- Best rank
- #246
- in 2025
- First recorded
- 1886
- #1,087 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2016
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 89 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 20251,408#246Peak
- 20241,099#311
- 2023789#405
- 2022619#494
- 2021558#528
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #246 in 2025 · peak births 1,408 in 2025
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 100% boys■ 0% girls
7,785 boys · 30 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Shepherd has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.