Family name origins & meanings
- Muslim : probably from a personal name based on Persian sher ‘lion’. Sher Shah ‘king of the lions’ was a Delhi sultan (1540–45).
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from Yiddish shayer ‘barn’.
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