# Cheek (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/cheek/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A pre-Norman surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 16,020 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,273 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 19,273 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.9% (15,566 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Cheek in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 80% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 14% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.3% |
| Two or more races | 2.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Cheek in the United States and the United Kingdom.

## People named Cheek

- Molly Cheek, American actress
- Martin Roy Cheek, British botanist (born 1960)
- Alison Cheek, American priest (1927-2019)

## Similar surnames

Check, Cheeks, Cook, Cox, Casey, Chase, Case, Cooke, Cash, Couch, Ceja, Causey.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.