The Cheung surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 18,765 people carried this name — #1,920 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 15,700 people counted. That is up 17% from 16,067 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Cheung surname
From Cantonese 張 /张 (zoeng¹), 章 (zoeng¹) or 蔣 /蒋 (zoeng²).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Cheung» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
159 people named Cheung live in Switzerland.
They live in 14 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 146 people named Cheung live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 78 people named Cheung.
Most of them — 52 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 3 départements, most often French Polynesia.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
207 people named Cheung are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Cheung in American newspapers,
1902–1906.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,592 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Cheung,
with a public archive behind them.
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Yuen Qiu 1950– · actor -
Katherine Sui Fun Cheung 1904–2003 · aircraft pilot
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W. Cheung 1915– · badminton player
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Y. K. Cheung 1924– · professor
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Sy See Cheung 1935– · badminton player
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Xi Xi 1937–2022 · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Cheung.
- Cherubini 452 · U.S. census
- Chervin 160 · U.S. census
- Chery 4,027 · U.S. census
- Chesney 4,491 · U.S. census
- Chetcuti 186 · U.S. census
- Chetrit 127 · U.S. census
- Cheval 134 · U.S. census
- Chevalier 6,431 · U.S. census
- Chevallier 397 · U.S. census
- Chever 105 · U.S. census
- Chevrette 373 · U.S. census
- Chevrier 414 · U.S. census
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