Cheetham
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cheetham is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. Recorded meaning: person from Cheetham, Lancashire; ‘homestead by a wood’.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 28K
- USUnited States1 in 510K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
person from Cheetham, Lancashire; ‘homestead by a wood’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cheetham 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Cheetham | 197 |
| AU Australia | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Cheetham | 126 |
| US United States | 652 | 1 in 510K | 758 | Cheetham | 212 |
| CA Canada | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Cheetham | 75 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 217K | — | Cheetham | 17 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Cheetham | 36 |
| PT Portugal | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Cheetham | 10 |
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: the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Cheetham is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, From Cheetham, Lancashire; first attested Geoffrey de Chetham 1246 AssLa.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Lancs., apparently so called from the Brit, element cetowood + OE ham homestead; cf. Chatham. Vars.: Chasan, Haz(z)an, Khazan, Kazan; Chason (reflecting an
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Cheethamb. 1802GBBritish politician
- Alfred Cheethamb. 1867GBAntarctic explorer (1867–1918)
- Milne Cheethamb. 1869GBBritish diplomat (1869–1938)
- Samuel Cheethamb. 1896GBEnglish footballer (1896-?)
- Tommy Cheethamb. 1910GBfootballer (1910-1993)
- Jack Cheethamb. 1920ZASouth African cricketer (1920-1980)
- Roy Cheethamb. 1939GBEnglish footballer (1939-2019)
- Anthony Cheethamb. 1946GBBritish materials scientist
- Deborah Cheetham Fraillonb. 1964AUYorta Yorta singer, composer and actress
- Mandy May Cheethamactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 758 | #32,512 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 652 | #34,668 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 588 | #36,045 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| 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 Cheetham mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Cheetham, Lancashire; ‘homestead by a wood’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Cheetham have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Cheetham in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cheetham.
- How common is the name Cheetham?
- In the United States, the national register counted 652 people named Cheetham in 2010, about 1 in 510 thousand residents.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cheethamThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Cheetham”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.