Cernak
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səɹnək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cernak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovakia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 3.6K
- CZCzechia1 in 59K
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.
- Slovakia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 130 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
1,497 people, 1995
Highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cernak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | 1,497 | 1 in 3.6K | 1.5K | Cernak | 3 |
| US United States | 276 | 1 in 1.2M | 292 | Cernak | 130 |
| CZ Czechia | 182 | 1 in 59K | 182 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Cernak | 14 |
| IT Italy | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Cernak | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Cernak | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 21 | 1 in 201K | 21 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 692K | — | Cernak | 7 |
1,497 people counted by JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census), 1995, counting the spelling černák. 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 — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
- Jack Cermakb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican engineer
- Isaka Cernakb. 1989AUAustralian soccer player
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 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 292 | #63,812 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 284 | #73,555 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 276 | #70,833 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Cernak?
- A machine transcription gives /səɹnək/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Cernak have the most bearers?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Cernak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cernak.
- Where is Cernak most common?
- Cernak is densest in Slovakia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cernak?
- In Slovakia, the national register counted 1,497 people named Cernak in 1995, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cernak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cernakThe 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, “Cernak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.