The Sherwin Last Name

Sherwin is an English surname. The usual explanation, from Elsdon Smith, is “descendant of Scirwine (bright, friend); a nickname for a fast runner, "shear wind."”.

• It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear.
• The 2010 census count for Sherwin in the United States was 3,296, good for rank 9,821. That is enough to place it in the top 10,000 American surnames.

Arms associated with the name

Sharing the Sherwin name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families. For the full story, order the Sherwin surname pack.