Various other sites dealing with Jewish surnames include Sherman. This is not to say that Gen.Sherman was a self-aware Jew,in fact there are many Americans which have Jewish origins without even knowing it. As an example,there is a family that lives in a neigboring county with the surname Jacobs (which is without question a Jewish surname),however,these people would'nt know a Jew if one were to bite them in the hindside ... they're plain hill folk who,by many generations of separation from their earlier forebears,have forgotten their Jewish origins.     Braun Nah, Sherman is not an exclusively Jewish name.    English: occupational name for a sheepshearer or someone who used shears to trim the surface of finished cloth and remove excess nap, from Middle English  shereman  shearer.   Americanized spelling of German  Schuermann .   Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a tailor, from Yiddish  sher  scissors +  man  man.    North German (Schürmann): habitational name for someone from a place called Schüre(n), or a topographic name for someone who lived by a barn, from Middle Low German  schüre  barn.    http://www.ancestry.com/facts/sherma...y-history.ashx