Shearman Surname Guide

Arms linked to Sherman and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Family name meaning

The spelling Shearman grew out of Sherman, an English surname with a long paper trail. In origin, the name means “Shearer of cloth”.

Records show Shearman as one of the forms Sherman took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Sharman, Scherman and Schermann. 722 Americans were listed as Shearman in the 2010 census. It sits among the 50,000 most common last names in the country.

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