Çerna

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Çerna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Cerna.

rarermore common
  • 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 Çerna 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)

≈25,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
243 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 583 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ÇernaLatin(measured from records)
ΤσερναGreek(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Cerna.

Sources 2

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Çerna 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 Çerna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#661≈25,000 est.≈1 in 4.4K—Cerna55
PE Peru#231≈22,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Cerna86
CZ Czechia—18,3461 in 58318K—1
TR Türkiye—≈6,700 est.≈1 in 12K—Karalar50
US United States—5,7261 in 58K5.7KCerna243
NI Nicaragua#196≈3,600 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Cerna36
SV El Salvador#258≈3,600 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Cerna44
HN Honduras#242≈2,800 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Cerna35

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Çerna is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Sinhala surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Peru, United States

    Also written Cerna, Černá

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Çerna under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Çerna mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Cerna. Recorded by Wiktionary and Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
In which country does Çerna have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Çerna in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cerna.
Where is Çerna most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Çerna is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 583 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Çerna?
In Czechia, the national register counted 18,346 people named Çerna, about 1 in 583 residents.
How common is Çerna compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Çerna 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, “Çerna” — the 661st most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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