Cerjak

surname · Latin script

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

/s̪erjak/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 16K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1M

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)

257 people, 2021

Sources
36 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

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

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cerjak 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 Cerjak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia2571 in 16K257Cerjak36
SI Slovenia1991 in 11K199Cerjak11
US United States≈69 est.≈1 in 4.9M—Cerjak8
FR France≈54 est.≈1 in 1.3M11—1
NL Netherlands121 in 1.4M12Cerjak4
CH Switzerland81 in 1.1M8—2

257 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); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

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

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Čerjak

27 further groups 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

FormalPoštovani Cerjak,Dear Cerjak, (English)
InformalPoštovani Cerjak,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Cerjak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021257#3,206
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021203—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—199#2,152
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200712#60,461
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199111—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19819—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20248#72,019
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19618—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19517—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19714—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19314—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19213—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

How do you pronounce Cerjak?
A machine transcription gives /s̪erjak/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Cerjak have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 257 people named Cerjak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cerjak.
Where is Cerjak most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cerjak is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Cerjak?
In Croatia, the national register counted 257 people named Cerjak in 2021, about 1 in 16 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, “Cerjak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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