Cérna
surname · Latin script
Meaning: thread (a long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of strings)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Cérna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1.7K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 1.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Cérna itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- 1 in 583 (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Cerna in PE Peru, PH Philippines, US United States and 3 more and Karalar in TR Türkiye.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)thread (a long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of strings)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cérna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #661 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Cerna | 55 |
| PE Peru | #231 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Cerna | 86 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 18,346 | 1 in 583 | 18K | — | 1 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Karalar | 50 |
| US United States | — | 5,726 | 1 in 58K | 5.7K | Cerna | 243 |
| NI Nicaragua | #196 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Cerna | 36 |
| SV El Salvador | #258 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Cerna | 44 |
| HN Honduras | #242 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Cerna | 35 |
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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Cérna is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Variante di Cerne
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cérna mean, and where does it come from?
- thread (a long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of strings) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Cérna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Cérna in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cerna.
- Where is Cérna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cérna is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 583 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cérna?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 18,346 people named Cérna, about 1 in 583 residents.
- How common is Cérna compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Cérna is the 661st most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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, “Cérna” — the 661st most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.