Čer

surname · Latin script

Čer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 91K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 121K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 649K

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 Čer 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.

United States (measured from records)

251 named Cher, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ČerLatin(measured from records)
ЧерCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cer in PL Poland, SI Slovenia and Cher 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Čer 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 Čer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States251as Cher1 in 1.3M2.1KCher9
BR Brazil221as Cher1 in 958K221——
PL Poland521 in 736K27Cer10
IN India47as Cher1 in 28M47——
BE Belgium36as Cher1 in 326K36—1
HR Croatia351 in 121K35Čer11
SI Slovenia231 in 91K23Cer4
RS Serbia≈11 est.≈1 in 649K—Čer5

251 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Čer is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States

    Also written Cer, Čeř, Čěŕ, Čėř

  • Lithuanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania

    Also written Cer, Çer

  • English surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Malaysia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Cer, Çer, Cër, Čęr, Çęř

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Čer is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In xgn-pro, 1 phlegm 2 tumour

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Slovenian, rocky islet, skerry

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ruo, heaven

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In xgn-pro, 1 слизь, мокроты 2 опухоль

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Latvian, lieto, lai atdarinātu paskarbas, pazemas putnu balss skaņas

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Čer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202135#16,854
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202132—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—9#20,688

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

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Čer have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 251 people named Cher, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Čer most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Čer is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 91 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Čer?
In Poland, the national register counted 52 people named Čer in 2026, about 1 in 736 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, “Čer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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