The Cheeks Family Name

People called Cheeks share their surname's story with Cheek, of which it is a variant. Its meaning, shared with Cheek, is “Cheek (nickname)”. The extra ending in Cheeks is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Cheek's family. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Cheke.

Cheeks ranked 7,964 in the 2010 US Census, with 4,155 people answering to the name.

There is no single Cheeks family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. Get the complete Cheeks report, with a museum-style coat of arms.