Cernea

surname · Latin script

Meaning: var. regional de Cerna

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

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

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 439K(measured from records)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
  • PLPoland1 in 2.6M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Spain (measured from records)

114 people

Sources
57 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 439K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

var. regional de Cerna.

Sources 1

  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cernea 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 Cernea is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1141 in 439K114—3
PL Poland151 in 2.6M12—1
CH Switzerland51 in 1.7M5—1
BE Belgium11 in 12M1—2
CZ Czechia11 in 11M1——

114 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Cernea is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Brazil, Romania

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Cernéa

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Romania

    Also written Cernéa

24 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)

19201940196019802000Michael M. Cernea, b. 1931Ruth Cernea, b. 1934Ion Cernea, b. 1936Adolf Cernea, b. 1941Mihai Cernea, b. 1950Remus Cernea, b. 1974Cornel Cernea, b. 1976Bubu Cernea, b. 1994

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)

FormalStimate domnule Cernea,Dear Mr Cernea, (English)
InformalSalut Cernea,Hi Cernea, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Cernea
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—114#25,184
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—114#24,999
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202612—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—12#119,874
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20245#101,952
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#252,267
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081#176,723
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—1#260,706

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

What does the name Cernea mean, and where does it come from?
var. regional de Cerna. Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
How do you pronounce Cernea?
A machine transcription gives /tʃernĕa/ (IPA) for Romanian.
In which country does Cernea have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 114 people named Cernea, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Cernea most common?
Cernea is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 439 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Cernea?
In Spain, the national register counted 114 people named Cernea, about 1 in 439 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, “Cernea”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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