Popularity of the last name by country
Australia
- Victoria (604)
- New South Wales (181)
- South Australia (91)
- Queensland (78)
- Tasmania (8)
- Western Australia (5)
- Northern Territory (1)
All countries
- United States (194,431)
- United Kingdom (55,287)
- Unknown country (3,522)
- Canada (2,525)
- France (2,004)
- New Zealand (1,372)
- Ireland (1,223)
- Australia (989)
- Germany (580)
- Russian Federation (423)
- Italy (383)
- Poland (319)
- Spain (272)
- Netherlands (250)
- Switzerland (202)
- Cuba (187)
- Colombia (184)
- Belgium (172)
- Mexico (170)
- India (143)
- Sweden (118)
- Lebanon (114)
- Argentina (92)
- China (92)
- Austria (88)
- Portugal (85)
- Lithuania (80)
- Greece (79)
- Turkey (61)
- Jamaica (53)
- Hungary (52)
- Peru (51)
- Philippines (46)
- Indonesia (43)
- Egypt (39)
- Paraguay (39)
- Trinidad and Tobago (36)
- South Africa (36)
- Ukraine (35)
- Belarus (34)
Origine of last name
SHERMAN : 1: English (London): occupational name denoting someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excessive nap from Middle English sherman shirman sharman ‘shearman’.2: Americanized form of North German Schürmann (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Schuermann">Schuermann</a>) and of German or Jewish (Ashkenazic) <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Schermann">Schermann</a>.3: Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tailor from Yiddish sher ‘scissors’ + man ‘man’.
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