Tracing the Schermann Family Name

There is no single Schermann family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

Family name meaning

Schermann is a branch of the Sherman name tree. The family name meaning is “Shearer of cloth”, the same as for Sherman.

Records show Schermann as one of the forms Sherman took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Scherman, Shearman and Sharman. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Schermann with 238 bearers, at rank 79,846. From 1891 to 2000, 316 births in France were registered under Schermann. There were 12 such births in the 1890s and 42 in the 1990s.

Get the complete Schermann report, with a museum-style coat of arms.