Cheaney Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

Hunts and Rutland 0
Leicestershire 1
Northamptonshire 1
Anglesey 0
Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Brecknockshire 0
Berkshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 0
Durham 0
Essex 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 0
Lincolnshire 0
London 0
Middlesex 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0
Shropshire 0
Suffolk 0
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 0
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 0

Cheaney Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Cheaney family

Profession Census Frequency
Agricultural Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Cheaney

Name Census Frequency
Elizabeth Cheaney 12
Sarah Cheaney 12
William Cheaney 12
George Cheaney 10
Edward Cheaney 9
Mary Cheaney 9
Joseph Cheaney 7
Thomas Cheaney 7
Alfred Cheaney 6
Jonathan Cheaney 6
Clara Cheaney 5
James Cheaney 5
Ada Cheaney 4
Annie Cheaney 4
Arthur Cheaney 4
Emma Cheaney 4
Frank Cheaney 4
Fred Cheaney 4
Harriet Cheaney 4
John Cheaney 4
Ann Cheaney 3
Ellen Cheaney 3
Elsie Cheaney 3
Maud Cheaney 3
Caroline Cheaney 2

Cheaney Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Cheney 86% 6,274
2 Chaney 86% 5,106
3 Chainey 71% 1,679
4 Chiney 71% 436
5 Cheaney 100% 207
6 Cheeney 86% 165
7 Cheny 71% 142

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The surname Cheaney is the 5th most popular variant of Cheney.

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