Last Name HIRD

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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, Jewish, Irish, Hungarian

Rank 18,165 (2000 US census) 16,136 (1990 US census)
Count 1,413 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 79.19%, or 1119 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 10.97%, or 155 total occurrences, as black,
  • 3.68%, or 52 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • undisclosed % as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • undisclosed % as two or more races, and
  • 4.74%, or 67 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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