Last Name HERD

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Meaning	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, Dutch, Irish, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank	6,000 (2000 US census)	5,583 (1990 US census)

Count	5,287 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

75.94%, or 4015 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
19.05%, or 1007 total occurrences, as black,
0.51%, or 27 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.89%, or 47 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.93%, or 102 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.68%, or 89 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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