Cheatham

Cheatham is the 2,923rd most common surname in the United States, shared by 12,024 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 24,900.

By the numbers

People: 12,024
Rank: 2,923rd
How common: 1 in 24,900
Per 100,000: 4.0

Where the name comes from

From Middle English, variant of Cheetham, from historical Cheetham in Lancashire, from Chet + ham; first element from cel-bry/cel *cęd (“wood, forest”), from Proto-Celtic *kaitos, from Proto-Indo-European *kayt-, *ḱayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”), related to Latin bucetum.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cheatham described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 53.0%
Black, not Hispanic 37.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Cheatham

Maree Cheatham (born 1942)American actress

People named Cheatham with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cheatham

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.