The surname Sirmans
A surname, carried by 1,536 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S655
Origin
Variant of Sermon.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,536 people named Sirmans in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 201,006 Americans. That is up 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,303.
#18,128
rank among US surnames
1,536
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
+17.9%
change since 2000 (was #19,248)
Who is named Sirmans
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
65% of people named Sirmans identified as white (not Hispanic), 30% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 65%
- Black (not Hispanic) 30%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
- Two or more races 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Sirmans has the Soundex code S655, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S655.
Questions
- Where does the surname Sirmans come from?
- Variant of Sermon.
- How common is the surname Sirmans?
- 1,536 people in the United States had the surname Sirmans in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 201,006 Americans. It ranked 18,128th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Sirmans?
- In the 2010 Census, 65% of people named Sirmans identified as white (not Hispanic), and 30% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Sirmans getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,303 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,536 in 2010, up 18%.