Cernev
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
Cernev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 8.4Kas Chernev(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 4.9M
- RURussia≈1 in 1.6Mas Chernev
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 Cernev 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.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.9M (inferred from the name graph)
≈830 named Chernev, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Chernev in BG Bulgaria, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 1 more and Чернев in RU Russia.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cernev 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #482 | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | — | Chernev | 68 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Чернев | 12 |
| US United States | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 6.9M | listed | Chernev | 20 |
| BR Brazil | — | 43 | 1 in 4.9M | 43 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Chernev | 13 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Cernev | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Chernev | 3 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 43 | #116,436 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Cernev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 828 people named Chernev in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cernev most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cernev is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 4.9 million people — even though Bulgaria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cernev?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 43 people named Cernev, about 1 in 4.9 million residents.
- How common is Cernev compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Cernev is the 482nd most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cernev?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cernevThe 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, “Cernev” — the 482nd most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.