Şurman

surname · Latin script

Şurman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Oxon and Gloucs; also. occupational name, variant of Shurman , Shirman or Sherman (see Sharman ) with Shunpalatalized to S-.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 69K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 228K
  • NONorway1 in 342K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

788 people, 2010

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 69K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Main GB Location (1881): Oxon and Gloucs; also. occupational name, variant of Shurman , Shirman or Sherman (see Sharman ) with Shunpalatalized to S-. Further information: There is no evidence for Reaney’s suggestion that it was derived from Middle English serm(o)un ‘sermon’ or a reduced form of sermoner ‘preacher’.

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Şurman counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Şurman is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States7881 in 422K940—3
PL Poland5561 in 69K283——
TR Türkiye≈87 est.≈1 in 940K—Şurman9
CZ Czechia471 in 228K47——
BR Brazil241 in 8.8M24——
NO Norway161 in 342K16——

788 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Şurman is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Arabic

    Also written Surman, Suerman, Sürman

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Şurman under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Şurman mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): Oxon and Gloucs; also. occupational name, variant of Shurman , Shirman or Sherman (see Sharman ) with Shunpalatalized to S-. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
In which country does Şurman have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 788 people named Şurman, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Şurman most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Şurman is densest in Poland — about 1 in 69 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Şurman?
In the United States, the national register counted 788 people named Şurman in 2010, about 1 in 422 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Şurman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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