What Does The Name Shermer Mean?
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What does the name Shermer mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.

Origin and Meaning of Shermer

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S is for scholar, the brilliant in you.

H is for hope, the encouragement you give.

E is for enrich, a quality you share.

R is for rock star, let it out!

M is for mild, your mild and gentle way.

E is for eager, let's get started!

R is for rich, in the love from others

Notable Persons With the Last Name Shermer

Michael Shermer is an academic historian of science, editor, history of science, editor-in-chief, and academichistorian of scienceandeditor. He holds the title Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic, Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University, Adjunct Professor at Chapman University, Editor-in-Chief ofSkeptic, and Senior Research Fellow atClaremont Graduate Universityand Adjunct Professor atChapman University. Michael was given the name Michael Brant Shermer on September 8th, 1954.

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Kirk Shermer is a soccer player for the Fresno State Bulldogs and Los Angeles Lazers. Kirk was born on October 13th, 1960 in Fresno, California.

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Ethnicity Distribution

Ethnicity Shermer U.S.
White 95.36% 64.26%
African American 1.24% 11.96%
Asian, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander 0.00% 4.85%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.77% 0.69%
Two or More Ethnicities 0.00% 1.76%
Hispanic or Latino 1.86% 16.26%

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People with the last name Shermer are most frequently White

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Fun Facts about the name Shermer

  • How Popular is the name Shermer? As a last name Shermer was the 34,916th most popular name in 2010.
  • When was the first name Shermer first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the name Shermer is Wednesday, February 17th, 1909.
  • How unique is the name Shermer? From 1880 to 2021 less than 5 people per year have been born with the first name Shermer. Hoorah! You are a unique individual.
  • Weird things about the name Shermer: The name spelled backwards is Remrehs. A random rearrangement of the letters in the name (anagram) will give Smrerhe. How do you pronounce that?
  • How many people have the last name Shermer? In 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau surveyed 646 people with the last name Shermer.
  • How likely are you to meet someone with the last name of Shermer? Chances are, most people haven't met someone with Shermer as their last name since less than 1 person in 455k people have that last name. If you know one, consider yourself lucky!

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Past life for Shermer born Feb 4, 2022

I do not know how you feel about it, but you were a male in your last earthly incarnation. You were born somewhere around the territory of Ukraine approximately on 500. Your profession was preacher, publisher, and scribbler of ancient inscriptions.

Psychologically, you were timid, constrained, and quiet. You had creative talents, waited until that life to be liberated. Sometimes environment considered you strange. It always seemed to you, that your perceptions of the world are somewhat different. Your lesson - to trust your intuition as your best guide in present life.

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  • U.S. Census Bureau: Frequently Occurring Surnames from the Census 2000 (public domain).
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