Cerna
surname · Latin script
Meaning: var. regional de Cerne
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/sɛrna/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cerna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- 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 Cerna 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- 1 in 583 (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 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)
var. regional de Cerne.
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cerna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #661 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Cerna | 55 |
| PE Peru | #231 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Cerna | 86 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 18,346 | 1 in 583 | 18K | — | 1 |
| TR Türkiye | — | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Karalar | 50 |
| US United States | — | 5,726 | 1 in 58K | 5.7K | Cerna | 243 |
| NI Nicaragua | #196 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Cerna | 36 |
| SV El Salvador | #258 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Cerna | 44 |
| HN Honduras | #242 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Cerna | 35 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Cerna is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, third-person singular past historic of cerner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, inflection of cernere:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, heartwood
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, digested
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vicente Cerna Sandovalb. 1815GTGuatemalan president (1815-1885)
- Panait Cernab. 1881RORomanian writer and academic (1881-1913)
- Miroslava Černáb. 1901Czech Paralympic archer
- Alexandru Cerna-Radulescub. 1920RORomanian poet (1920-1990)
- Rosa Cerna Guardiab. 1926PEPeruvian writer and poet (1926-2012)
- Jorge Cañasb. 1942SVnot in their usual nameSalvadoran footballer (1942-1997)
- Silviu Cernab. 1950RORomanian economist
- Ricardo Alfonso Cernab. 1956GTGuatemalan immigrant
- Amanda Cernab. 1998CLChilean athletics competitor
- Alberick GarcíaPEnot in their usual namePeruvian actor
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.7K | #6,005 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.7K | #5,825 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4K | #7,625 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #260,707 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1 | #25,536 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Cerna mean, and where does it come from?
- var. regional de Cerne. Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Cerna?
- A machine transcription gives /sɛrna/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cerna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Cerna in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cerna.
- Where is Cerna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cerna is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 583 people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cerna?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 18,346 people named Cerna, about 1 in 583 residents.
- How common is Cerna compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Cerna is the 661st most common surname of 876,464 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cerna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cernaThe 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, “Cerna” — the 661st most common surname in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.