Sherwani Family History

A suffixed name indicating descent from someone from Sherwan, Abbottabad district in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, perhaps sometimes from the Hindi, Urdu, and Bengali word sherwani denoting a frock-coat adopted by aristocratic men in the 19th century.

However, the word appears to derive from the place-name in (i), which is perhaps therefore responsible for all instances of this surname.