Čeprnja

surname · Latin script

Meaning: zemljani sud za vodu; loš sud, krnjav zemljan sud

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: DZS, 2021

Čeprnja is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.

  • HRCroatia1 in 48K(measured from records)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 90Kfew records
  • SESweden≈1 in 1.6Mfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

88 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
14 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ČeprnjaLatin(measured from records)
ЧепрњаCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ceprnja in US United States, SE Sweden.

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)
recorded in Croatian

zemljani sud za vodu; loš sud, krnjav zemljan sud

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Čeprnja is found

(measured from records)

Čeprnja 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.

Where Čeprnja is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia881 in 48K88Čeprnja14
RS Serbia≈73 est.≈1 in 90K—Čeprnja6
SE Sweden≈7 est.≈1 in 1.6M—Ceprnja3
US United States≈3 est.≈1 in 119M—Ceprnja10

88 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Čeprnja is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Australia, United States, Austria

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Ceprnja

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ceprnja

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Čeprnja mean?
Recorded meaning: zemljani sud za vodu; loš sud, krnjav zemljan sud
Which countries have the most people with the surname Čeprnja?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 88 people named Čeprnja, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled čeprnja. After it come Serbia, Sweden and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Čeprnja most common?
Čeprnja is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 48 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Čeprnja?
In Croatia, the national register counted 88 people named Čeprnja in 2021, about 1 in 48 thousand residents.

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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, “Čeprnja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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