Shoard
English edit
Etymology edit
Topographic surname for someone who lived by a gap between hills, or by a cleft in rocks, from Old English sċeard (“notch, gap; shard”).
Proper noun edit
Shoard (plural Shoards)
- A surname from Old English.
Statistics edit
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Shoard is the 34216th most common surname in England, belonging to 100 individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Shoard”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.