Sherman Family History
Sherman Name Meaning
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’.Americanized
spelling of German Schuermann.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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Name Distribution of Sherman Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Sherman families
 1,138 - 2,273  380 - 1,137 |
 1 - 379  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sherman families
|
291 - 579 98 - 290 |
1 - 97 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sherman families
|
26 - 50 9 - 25 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Sherman Family Origin
Sherman Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Sherman
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Sherman Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Sherman Civil War Service Records
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