Last Name HEARD

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Meaning	Herd. The herd, i.e. the cattle-tender, found in compounds like Shepherd, Calvert. Coward, Oxenherd. Heard is one of the instances among hundreds of the great imitative tendency in spelling surnames.

Origin	English, Irish, South african, Ethiopian

Rank	1,469 (2000 US census)	1,140 (1990 US census)

Count	22,211 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

42.3%, or 9395 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
53.7%, or 11927 total occurrences, as black,
0.3%, or 67 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.32%, or 71 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
2%, or 444 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.38%, or 307 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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