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The SHEARMAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 809 27924 0 3
United States (1880 census) 588 8483 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +221 -19441 +N/A -9
Other Countries
Australia 381 4166 0.002 23
United Kingdom 1,182 4592 0.003 26
Top States for SHEARMAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Texas 106 14053 0.001 5
Pennsylvania 75 18009 0.001 6
New York 65 26291 0.000 3
California 48 42080 0.000 1
Florida 44 32679 0.000 3
Top States for SHEARMAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Nebraska 28 9201 0.002 16
Montana 11 12778 0.001 12
New Mexico 21 6974 0.001 12
Idaho 13 12527 0.001 10
Louisiana 42 9968 0.001 9

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.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called SHEARMAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called SHEARMAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called SHEARMAN in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a SHEARMAN by picking someone at random in Nebraska than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of SHEARMAN

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 SHEARMAN 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 SHEARMAN 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 SHEARMAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 779 96.29
Mixed Race 12 1.48
Asian/Pacific 6 0.74
White (Hispanic) 6 0.74
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

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

Meaning of SHEARMAN in historical publications

SHEARMAN. See Sherman.

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 SHEARMAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as SHEARMAN.

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 SHEARMAN

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