Does anyone know the origion of the last name sirmons?

Question

My dad has told me that it is german but i cant find anything about my last name if anyone has any information or a website that can help i would appricate it thanks

Answer 1

This is all I could find in relation to the name, sorry.

Sirmons Name Meaning and History

English: variant of Sermon.

Answer 2

It is probably a variant of the surname Sermon or Sermons and originally started out as a occupational name in the 1200's from what I've been reading.

The name is found in the US census records at least as early as 1810 when a Rouse Sirmons lived in Montgomery, NY.

It looks to be primarily English in origin.

Answer 3

Surname: Sirman

This interesting name is a dialectual variant of sermon, of English origin, and is a metonymic occupational name for a preacher or public speaker, or perhaps a nickname for a person with a tendency to be verbose. The derivation is from the Middle English, 'serm(o)un', or Olde French 'sermon', meaning speech or discourse. In the modern idiom the variants include, Surmon, Sirmon, Sirman, Sermin, and Serman. Two recordings of christenings in London are of one James Surman, son of Richard and Rebecca Surman on 27th November 1668 at St. Botolph without Aldgate, and on Benjamin, son of John and Sara Surman on 7th July 1692 at Christ Church, Southwark. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard le Sermoner, which was dated 1212, in the Curia Rolls Hertfordshire, during the reign of King John, known as 'Lackland', 1199 - 1216.