Surname statistics for Sheard

There are approximately 4,219 people named Sheard in the UK. That makes it the 2,478th most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 67 are named Sheard.

Frequency Comparisons
TotalRankFrequency %Per million people
Great Britain
United Kingdom (current)42192478N/A67
United Kingdom (1881 census)274316300.00992
Change since 1881+1476-848-0.002-25
Other Countries
United States190114415N/A7
Australia2765618N/A17

Politics

People with the surname Sheard are more likely to be politicians than the average member of the population. When they do become politicians, they are most likely to be elected as Labour.

As of the most recent set of elections, the political parties represented by politicians called Sheard are:

  1. Labour (3)
More stats for the politics nerds!

Top male forenames

John Sheard
David Sheard
Paul Sheard
Andrew Sheard
Peter Sheard
Richard Sheard
Jonathan Sheard
Martin Sheard
Mark Sheard
James Sheard
Robert Sheard
Michael Sheard
Ian Sheard
Nicholas Sheard
Anthony Sheard
Graham Sheard
Lee Sheard
Christopher Sheard
Steven Sheard
Keith Sheard

Top female forenames

Helen Sheard
Julie Sheard
Mary Sheard
Susan Sheard
Jennifer Sheard
Christine Sheard
Patricia Sheard
Brenda Sheard
Anne Sheard
Emma Sheard
Rachel Sheard
Allyson Sheard
Sharon Sheard
Denise Sheard
Elizabeth Sheard
Sarah Sheard
Sandra Sheard
Pamela Sheard
Nicola Sheard
Sylvia Sheard

Notes

  • Total is the total number of people with that surname.
  • Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
  • Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
  • Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

All of these are approximate figures, and the current figures especially so. The 1881 census figures are correct for what was recorded on the census, but we don't really know how accurate it was. At least, though the 1881 figures won't change, as it's a snapshot of a point in time. The current figures, by contrast, are variable according to births, deaths, migration and marriages, so the values shown here are only a best approximation to whatever was the case when the underlying data was collated and will not be the same as whatever the values are right now.

'N/A' indicates that we don't have data for this name in that country or time (usually because it's quite uncommon there and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one there with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the UK as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.