Last Name SHERMAN

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Meaning The shearman, a cloth-shearer, one who sheared the nap.
The shearman, a cloth shearman.
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.
Name SHERMAN is a Latin spelling of its Cyrillic origin 'ШЕРМАН'. Below are some other possible Latin spellings of the Cyrillic version of this name.
'SHERMAN'
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Origin English, Jewish, Polish, Irish, South african, Hungarian, Liberian, Belarusian

Rank 422 (2000 US census) 420 (1990 US census)
Count 69,840 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 84.91%, or 59301 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 10.9%, or 7613 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.46%, or 321 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.91%, or 636 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.35%, or 943 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.48%, or 1034 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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