Last name: SHERMAN
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SHERMAN : This last name is indexed 274,261 times on Geneanet!Origin 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 Schuermann) and of German or Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schermann.3: Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tailor from Yiddish sher ‘scissors’ + man ‘man’.
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