Shedd

At the 2020 census, 3,755 Americans bore the surname Shedd — 8,446th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 79,600.

By the numbers

People: 3,755
Rank: 8,446th
How common: 1 in 79,600
Per 100,000: 1.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

Topographic surname for someone who lived in a hovel, from Middle English schade (“shade, shadow; shad”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Shedd described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 86.4%
Black, not Hispanic 5.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Surnames like Shedd

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.