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The CHEEVER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 2,179 12929 0.001 8
United States (1880 census) 801 6539 0.002 16
Change since 1880 +1378 -6390 -0.001 -8
Other Countries
Australia 10 90629 0 1
United Kingdom 2 34943 0 0
Top States for CHEEVER by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 226 3973 0.004 36
California 157 16086 0.000 5
Florida 151 12346 0.001 9
Wisconsin 133 6550 0.002 25
Washington 92 8204 0.002 16
Top States for CHEEVER by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New Hampshire 81 2418 0.007 66
Maine 48 3914 0.004 38
Massachusetts 226 3973 0.004 36
Utah 76 3678 0.003 34
Kansas 70 4944 0.003 26

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CHEEVER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CHEEVER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CHEEVER in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CHEEVER by picking someone at random in New Hampshire than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CHEEVER

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CHEEVER surname.

Ethnic distribution of CHEEVER in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 109 5
White (Hispanic) 32 1.47
Mixed Race 26 1.19
Asian/Pacific 18 0.83
Native American/Alaskan 16 0.73
White (Caucasian) 1,978 90.78

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CHEEVER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

CHEEVER is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CHEEVER in historical publications

(origin: Fr.) Chevir signifies to master or overcome; and Chevre is a goat.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.


CHEEVER. Fr. chcvre. A goat. In the Domesd. of Devonshire is a tenant in capite called William Chievre, otherwise Capra. In B.L.G. it is stated, that " the family was established in England by a Norman knight in the army of the Conqueror, and in Ireland by Sir William Chevre, one of the companions of Strongbow."

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to CHEEVER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CHEEVER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CHEEVER

The following words are slight variants of CHEEVER that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.