Cheick Surname
Approximately 1,454 people bear this surname
Cheick Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mali | 581 | 1:29,207 | 949 |
| Mauritania | 236 | 1:17,351 | 1,609 |
| Ivory Coast | 228 | 1:101,190 | 5,241 |
| Cameroon | 195 | 1:106,508 | 12,495 |
| Guinea | 48 | 1:246,538 | 1,038 |
| France | 36 | 1:1,845,076 | 161,051 |
| Niger | 29 | 1:661,794 | 16,082 |
| United States | 20 | 1:18,122,947 | 588,089 |
| Burkina Faso | 19 | 1:965,900 | 9,829 |
| Benin | 10 | 1:1,033,560 | 48,353 |
| Djibouti | 9 | 1:101,659 | 734 |
| Spain | 6 | 1:7,792,006 | 100,283 |
| Argentina | 4 | 1:10,685,854 | 219,200 |
| Togo | 4 | 1:1,811,942 | 8,122 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1:8,619,025 | 73,251 |
| Chad | 4 | 1:3,398,050 | 7,703 |
| India | 2 | 1:383,532,691 | 1,645,216 |
| Algeria | 2 | 1:19,315,776 | 97,017 |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1:4,581,136 | 93,443 |
| Canada | 2 | 1:18,422,796 | 409,488 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Philippines | 1 | 1:101,238,223 | 404,861 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 | 1:30,855,817 | 63,028 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Syria | 1 | 1:19,301,022 | 22,457 |
| Thailand | 1 | 1:70,638,345 | 1,175,915 |
| Brazil | 1 | 1:214,074,332 | 1,693,628 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Kenya | 1 | 1:46,179,900 | 103,372 |
| Belgium | 1 | 1:11,496,644 | 167,539 |
| Italy | 1 | 1:61,156,688 | 199,583 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 1:8,369,781 | 355,680 |
Cheick (124,479) may also be a first name.
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Cheick Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cheick Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Cheick (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﺍﻟﺸﻴﺦ) occurs in Mali more than any other country/territory. It can be rendered as:. Click here for other potential spellings of this name.
How Common Is The Last Name Cheick? popularity and diffusion
Cheick is the 268,397th most commonly used last name in the world. It is borne by approximately 1 in 5,012,067 people. The last name Cheick occurs predominantly in Africa, where 87 percent of Cheick reside; 82 percent reside in West Africa and 44 percent reside in Mande Africa. Cheick is also the 8,324th most common first name world-wide, borne by 124,479 people.
This last name is most commonly held in Mali, where it is held by 581 people, or 1 in 29,207. Not including Mali it occurs in 31 countries. It is also common in Mauritania, where 16 percent are found and The Ivory Coast, where 16 percent are found.
Cheick Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The occurrence of Cheick has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people bearing the Cheick last name grew 333 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Cheick Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Cheick surname are 46.77% more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than The US average, with 100% registered with the party.
Cheick earn marginally less than the average income. In United States they earn 3.45% less than the national average, earning $41,662 USD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Cheick Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cheick in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﺍﻟﺸﻴﺦ | alshykh | 97.52 |
| ﺷﻴﺦ | shykh | 1.98 |
| ﺍﺍﻟﺸﻴﺦ | aalshykh | 0.5 |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Cheick
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