Cheevers Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

Cheevers is how some branches of the Cheever family came to write their name. Its meaning, shared with Cheever, is “A dweller at the sign of the goat”. Cheevers adds a patronymic ending to Cheever, marking ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them.

The 2010 census count for Cheevers in the United States was 448, good for rank 47,356.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Cheevers, so the heraldry linked to Cheever is a starting point, not an automatic right. Research your Cheevers family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.