Sheard Family History
Sheard Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): from Middle English shard sherd shord ‘cleft gap notch’ (Old English sceard). The surname may be topographic for someone who lived by a gap (perhaps in a hedge or fence or in a range of hills) or habitational from a place so named such as Shard End in Castle Bromwich (Warwickshire) the lost Shert Hall in Disley Stanley (Cheshire) and possibly also Shard near Hambleton (Lancashire).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022