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The sherman Surname

sherman Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a sheepshearer or someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excess nap, from Middle English shereman ‘shearer’.
  2. Americanized spelling of German Schuermann.
  3. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tailor, from Yiddish sher ‘scissors’ + man ‘man’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of sherman Families in the US in 1920
Number of sherman families
 1138-2273
 380-1137
 1-379
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