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Sherman

Sherman is a boy's name meaning "Middle English occupational surname", drawing on Middle English roots. It had its heyday in the 1950s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. 1951 was this name's high-water mark in the U.S. birth records.

Middle EnglishMiddle English occupational surname
Etymology"Shearer of cloth"
Births by decade
1900s
838
1910s
3,377
1920s
5,082
1930s
4,855
1940s
5,467
1950s
5,853
1960s
4,320
1970s
3,306
1980s
2,273
1990s
1,351
2000s
715
2010s
344
Peaked in the 1950s · 37,781 total U.S. births since 1900