Cheese

org · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Cheese is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: From Middle English chese, from Old English ċīese, specifically the Anglian form ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso.

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  • USUnited States
  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • CACanada

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
187 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Cheese: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Cheese
  1. Middle Englishchese(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishċīese(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*kāsī(measured from records)
  4. Latincāseus(measured from records)

From Middle English chese, from Old English ċīese, specifically the Anglian form ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso. Cognate with West Frisian tsiis and German Käse.

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cheese counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Cheese is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—487Cheese187
GB United Kingdom——Cheese106
AU Australia——Cheese35
CA Canada——Cheese23
PL Poland—2——

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 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Chloe Cheeseb. 1952GBEnglish painter and illustrator (born 1952)

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 9 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Cheese
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020487#47,035
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010464#45,959
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000427#46,839
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#316,878
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Cheese mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English chese, from Old English ċīese, specifically the Anglian form ċēse, from Proto-West Germanic *kāsī, borrowed from Latin cāseus. Doublet of queso. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
In which country does Cheese have the most bearers?
Cheese is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled cheese.

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About this data

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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, “Cheese”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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