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Sherman

in Massachusetts

There are 2,118 people with the last name "Sherman" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

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Sherman 251
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  1. is 247th most common Kenney
  2. is 248th most common Connors
  3. is 249th most common Carvalho
  4. is 250th most common Oleary
  5. is 251st most common Sherman
  6. is 252nd most common Soares
  7. is 253rd most common Fitzpatrick
  8. is 254th most common Reilly
  9. is 255th most common Warren

Similar Names and Nicknames

Sherwood, Sheridan, Sherrill, Sherrod, Sherry, Sherer, Sheriff, Sherlock, Sher, Sherwin

Most Common First Names for Sherman

Robert, David, John, Michael, Richard, William, James, Mark, Scott, Stephen

Meaning & History

English: occupational name for a sheepshearer or someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excess nap, from Middle English shereman ‘shearer’.

Americanized spelling of German Schuermann.

Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tailor, from Yiddish sher ‘scissors’ + man ‘man’.

FOREBEARS Roger Sherman (1722–93), the only man to sign all three documents at the foundation of the American republic (the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution), was born in Newton, MA, a descendant of Capt. John Sherman, who had emigrated in about 1636 to MA from Dedham, Essex, England, where his father was a farmer, following his brother Edmund, who had emigrated two years earlier. A descendant of Edmund Sherman was the U.S. general William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–91), who led the Union march through GA. He was born in Lancaster, OH, the son of a judge; his middle name was bestowed in honor of a Shawnee chieftain.

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