Shepherd family name history and map
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Shepherd in 1911 Ireland
The 1911 Census recorded 234 people named Shepherd in Ireland; roughly one in every 19,000 people carried the name. The name was split fairly evenly between men and women: 113 men and 120 women. (A small number, 1, had no sex recorded.)
Counties with Shepherd in Ireland
Dublin was Shepherd country: 26.5% of them (62 people) lived there in 1911. Next came Down (50), Antrim (46), Tyrone (23) and Armagh (18).
Shepherd average age in 1911
The average Shepherd in 1911 was 27.1 years old, 25.8 for men and 28.4 for women; a touch younger than the national averages of 29.6 for men and 30.5 for women. That low figure reflects just how many children there were in Edwardian Ireland, along with high infant mortality and the limits of public health at the time. For comparison, average life expectancy in Ireland today is around 83.
Shepherd literacy in 1911
Of the Shepherds whose literacy was recorded, 80.7% could both read and write, 2.8% could read but not write, and 16.5% could do neither. Men came out slightly ahead, 84.3% reading and writing against 77.6% of women. Bear in mind these figures include young children; the census itself only counted people aged nine and over when calculating illiteracy, on the grounds that it was unfair to label a child illiterate before they'd had a chance to learn.
Shepherd common first names
The most common male names were Henry (9), John, James, Joseph and Thomas. For women it was Elizabeth (10), followed by Margaret, Mary, Annie and Isabella.
Shepherd occupations in 1911
The most common entry on a Shepherd's census form was "Scholar"; 20.5% (48) were children at school. Among the rest, the most common occupations were farmer (9%), shopkeeper / shop assistant / dealer (3.8%), clerk / office worker (3.4%) and general labourer (3%). Grouped by sector, agriculture accounted for 12% of all Shepherds, followed by retail & commerce, clerical & administration and general labourers.
What religion is Shepherd?
The largest religious group among Shepherds was Presbyterian, at 38.5%. The remainder were mostly Anglican (37.6%), Roman Catholic (17.9%), Methodist (4.7%) and Quaker (0.4%).
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Shepherd statistics (1911)
Number: 234
Rank: 2,276
Average Age: 27
Shepherdin the USA (2020)
Number: 59,896
Rank: 552
Note: If there were less than 100 in the USA census it will show as zero.
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