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Globally, シェパード (Shepherd , Shepard , Sheppard ) is quite a common boy's first name. The first name シェパード is habitual in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly Botswana, where it is quite a common masculine name, Zimbabwe, where it is quite a rare male name, and South Africa. Not in comparison with a country's population, it is the most numerous in Zimbabwe, the United States, and South Africa. More prevalently, シェパード is the last name as well as the forename.
シェパード is also a popular name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Shepherd , the operatic character in the opera Oedipus rex by Igor Stravinsky; shepherd 1 , the operatic character in the opera Daphne by Richard Strauss; Shepherd , the operatic character in the opera Œdipe by George Enescu; Shepard , the character from 1980 film 'Herbie Goes Bananas' and shepherd 3 , the operatic character in the opera Daphne by Richard Strauss, and in many other works.