Sherman

Sherman is the 493rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 66,346 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,505.

By the numbers

People: 66,346
Rank: 493rd
How common: 1 in 4,505
Per 100,000: 22.2

Where the name comes from

From Middle English schereman, scherman; equivalent.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sherman described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 79.8%
Black, not Hispanic 11.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891)United States Army general
James S. Sherman (1855–1912)vice president of the United States from 1909 to 1912
Cindy Sherman (born 1954)American photographer
John Sherman (1823–1900)American cabinet secretary and senator
Roger Sherman (1721–1793)early American lawyer and politician, Founding Father of the United States
Jack Sherman (1956–2020)American guitarist
Vincent Sherman (1906–2006)American film director
Richard M. Sherman (1928–2024)American composer

People named Sherman with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sherman

Also a first name

Sherman has been given to 39,393 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1950. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.