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The SHERMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 69,840 422 0.026 259
United States (1880 census) 20,990 245 0.042 420
Change since 1880 +48850 -177 -0.016 -161
Other Countries
Australia 661 2443 0.004 40
United Kingdom 2,264 2659 0.005 49
Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Classification and Origin of SHERMAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the SHERMAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the SHERMAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of SHERMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Mixed Race 943 1.35
Native American/Alaskan 636 0.91
Asian/Pacific 321 0.46
White (Caucasian) 59,301 84.91
Black/African American 7,613 10.9
White (Hispanic) 1,034 1.48

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the SHERMAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of SHERMAN in historical publications

A shearman, one who used to shear cloth. "Villain, thy father was a plasterer, and thou thyself a shearman." Stafford to Jack Cade. Shaks. Henry VI.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


SHERMAN. SHEREMAN. At Norwich, one who shears worsted, fustians, &c., an employment once known as ' shermancraft.' Eng. Surn. i. 108. The word has another distinct meaning. " Even at this day, in Norfolk, a person born out of tlie coimtyiscalleda Shireman, i.e., born in some one of the shires or counties of England." Archfcologia, xix, 16. But a more dignified origin may be assigned : in Domesdaybook the .Judge of the County-court (a very important office in Norman times) was

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to SHERMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHERMAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for SHERMAN

The following words are slight variants of SHERMAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.