How common is the surname Check?

2,545 people in the United States had the surname Check in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,315 Americans. It ranked 12,229th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Check?

In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Check identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Check getting more or less common?

More common. 2,160 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,545 in 2010, up 18%.

The surname Check

A surname, carried by 2,545 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex C200

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Check is more common than 92.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,545 people named Check in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 121,315 Americans. That is up 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,160.

#12,229

rank among US surnames

2,545

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+17.8%

change since 2000 (was #13,012)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#12,221	Berrier	2,547	121,219
#12,227	Greenhalgh	2,546	121,267
#12,229	Check	2,545	121,315
#12,231	Dumond	2,544	121,362
#12,236	Maly	2,543	121,410
#12,238	Doby	2,542	121,458

Who is named Check

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

80% of people named Check identified as white (not Hispanic), 16% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as Asian and Pacific Islander.

White (not Hispanic) 80%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 16%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Check

Check has the Soundex code C200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C200.

Questions

How common is the surname Check?: 2,545 people in the United States had the surname Check in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,315 Americans. It ranked 12,229th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Check?: In the 2010 Census, 80% of people named Check identified as white (not Hispanic), and 16% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Check getting more or less common?: More common. 2,160 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,545 in 2010, up 18%.