Cheema
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Punjabi
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈtʃimə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cheema is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In Thailand it is the 74th most common surname.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 7K
- USUnited States1 in 132K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cheema itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 296 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled เจ๊ะมะ in TH Thailand and Cheme in EC Ecuador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Punjabi.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cheema counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #203 | ≈210,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 32 | Cheema | 103 |
| TH Thailand | #74 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | #869,352 | เจ๊ะมะ | 73 |
| EC Ecuador | #813 | 5,729as Cheme | 1 in 3K | 5.7K | Cheme | 23 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #259 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Cheema | 29 |
| US United States | — | 2,525 | 1 in 132K | 3.7K | Cheema | 296 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #305 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Cheema | 41 |
| OM Oman | #388 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | — | Cheema | 14 |
| BH Bahrain | #345 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Cheema | 13 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.7K | #8,497 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,312 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #17,899 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 32 | #16 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1987 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cheema mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Punjabi. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cheema?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtʃimə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cheema have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 206 thousand people named Cheema in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cheema.
- How common is the name Cheema?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,525 people named Cheema in 2010, about 1 in 132 thousand residents.
- How common is Cheema compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Cheema is the 203rd most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cheemaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cheema” — the 203rd most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.