Shed

loc · Latin script

Meaning: dweller at the hovel; from OE *scydd; first attested John Schede 1301

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Shed is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
161 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

dweller at the hovel; from OE *scydd; first attested John Schede 1301

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Shed counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Shed is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—674Shed161
GB United Kingdom—83—43
IN India—5—13

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Shed is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Urdu name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan

    Also written Şhed

  • Bangla name2 spellings in the group

    Also written She'D

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Shed is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, To part, separate or divide.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In rup, to sit

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, rain-shed, 7., kptwa, nja-gbiuwa

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

17501800185019001950Robert Shed, b. 1773Ivan Langstroth, b. 1887Nevil Shed, b. 1943
  • Robert Shedb. 1773British Royal Navy officer, commander in 1814 (1773-?)
  • Ivan Langstrothb. 1887USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer (1887-1971)
  • Nevil Shedb. 1943USAmerican basketball player-coach

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Shed
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020674#35,833
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000645#33,380
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010613#36,477
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200283#37,228
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—27#1,370
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—10#95,564
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—5#186,848
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—4#31,618
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Shed mean, and where does it come from?
dweller at the hovel; from OE *scydd; first attested John Schede 1301 Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
In which country does Shed have the most bearers?
Shed is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled shed.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shed”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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