Cheeks

3,936 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cheeks in the 2020 census, making it the 8,067th most common in the country. That is about one person in 75,900.

By the numbers

People: 3,936
Rank: 8,067th
How common: 1 in 75,900
Per 100,000: 1.3

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 70.3%
White, not Hispanic 21.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.4%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Cheeks

Maurice Cheeks (born 1956)American basketball player and coach
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (1945–2025)American politician

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

Surnames like Cheeks

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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.