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Sherman

in West Virginia

There are 331 people with the last name "Sherman" in West Virginia.

Ranking in West Virginia

Name	Rank
Sherman	828

is 824th most common Jett
is 825th most common Sandy
is 826th most common Stephenson
is 827th most common Landis
is 828th most common Sherman
is 829th most common Shoemaker
is 830th most common Leach
is 831st most common Hancock
is 832nd most common Hendricks

Meaning & History

Sherman

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.