Chernyak
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Chernyak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ukrainian Черня́к (Černják) or Russian Черня́к (Černják).
- UAUkraine≈1 in 4.5Kas Черняк(inferred from the name graph)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 4.7Kas Черняк
- PLPoland1 in 6.1Kas Czerniak
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 Chernyak itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,500 named Черняк, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ukraine, est., as Черняк
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Черняк in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more and Cherniak in US United States.
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)From Ukrainian Черня́к (Černják) or Russian Черня́к (Černják).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Chernyak 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #399 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Черняк | 47 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Черняк | 138 |
| PL Poland | — | 6,265as Czerniak | 1 in 6.1K | 3.2K | — | 1 |
| BY Belarus | #273 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Черняк | 19 |
| US United States | — | 776as Czerniak | 1 in 429K | 803 | Cherniak | 135 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 171 | Черняк | 33 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gershon Chernyakb. 1914ILRussian-born Israeli lawyer
- Valentin Chernyakb. 1932UASoviet and Ukrainian actor
- Olga Chernyakb. 1972UAUSA fencer
- Viktoria Chernyakb. 1997Russian chess player
- Boris ChernyakRUresearcher
- Yelena ChernyakUSassistant professor of clinical psychiatry
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 426 | #49,365 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 408 | #54,521 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 339 | #56,392 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 21 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 21 | #86,330 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 19 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 19 | #91,743 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Chernyak mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ukrainian Черня́к (Černják) or Russian Черня́к (Černják). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Chernyak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.5 thousand people named Черняк in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Chernyak?
- In Poland, the national register counted 6,265 people named Czerniak in 2026, about 1 in 6.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Chernyak compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Chernyak is the 399th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chernyak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chernyakThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Chernyak” — the 399th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.