Sherman

English occupational name

"shearer of woolen cloth"

Updated Thu Apr 24 2025

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Sherman Origin and Meaning

The name Sherman is a boy's name of English origin meaning "shearer of woolen cloth".

Not quite as over-the-hill as Herman, but not far behind either.

# 895 in the US

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Sherman Alexie
American fiction writer
Sherman Alexander Hemsley
American actor
Sherman Adams
Chief of Staff for U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Governor of New Hampshire
Sherman Augustus
American actor and football player
Sherman Booth
American abolitionist
Sherman Dillard
American basketball player and coach
Sherman Douglas
American basketball player
Sherman Edwards
American composer
Sherman Fairchild
American entrepreneur
Sherman Howard
American actor
Sherman McMaster
American outlaw,turned,lawman
Sherman Minton
U.S. Supreme Court justice and senator from Indiana
Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman
American songwriting team
William Tecumseh Sherman
American Civil War General
Bobby Sherman
American pop singer

Sherman Klump
main character in movie 'The Nutty Professor"
Sherman
boy on animated series "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" and film "Peabody and Sherman"
"Sherman's Lagoon
" newspaper comic strip about the title shark
Sherman McCoy
main character in Tom Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities"
Sherman Schrader
character from movie "Accepted"
Sherman "Preacher" Dudley
character in movie "Deep Blue Sea"
Sherman Tortoise
character in comic strip "The Dandy"
Sherman Bagley
character in "Sims" series
Colonel Sherman T. Potter
character on the TV series "M*A*S*H"
Tommy Sherman
character on animated series "Daria"