Sheepy

See also: sheepy

English

Etymology

From Old English sċēap (“sheep”) + īeġ (“island”).

Proper noun

Sheepy (countable and uncountable, plural Sheepys)

1. A civil parish in Hinckley and Bosworth district, Leicestershire, England, which includes the villages of Sheepy Magna and Sheepy Parva.
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

Derived terms

• Sheepy Magna
• Sheepy Parva

 

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Sheepy is the 50675^th most common surname in England, belonging to 54 individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Sheepy”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears