Shep is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Shep in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Shep in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Shep by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Shep ranks at #5,972. That means there are 5,971 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Shep.
Meeting a man or boy named Shep is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Shep can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Shep. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Shep living in one state or another. (If your name is Shep and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Shep is in Texas, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00005% of all male residents are called Shep – that’s just one in 2,030,947! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 6 men going by that name. So, if your name is Shep, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With four letters, the name Shep is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Shep and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Shep, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Elephant
Pig
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shep
Shep
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
E
P
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
H
E
P
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Shep sounds like this:
