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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