Cernic
surname · Latin script
Meaning: de Cerne com suf. eslavo -ic'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
/θeɾnik/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Cernic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 13K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
- ARArgentina1 in 3.8M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
166 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)de Cerne com suf. eslavo -ic'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world
(measured from records)Cernic 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.
166 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank), counting the spelling černič. 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); the italian-surnames-defelice-1978 register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Cernic is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Variante di Cerne
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)- Nicole Cernicb. 1955ATAustrian politician
- Sebastian Cernicb. 1982RORomanian politician
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #70,597 |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Cernic mean, and where does it come from?
- de Cerne com suf. eslavo -ic'. Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Cernic?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /θeɾnik/; in Portuguese /sɛɾnik/; in Italian /t͡ʃernik/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Cernic have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 166 people named Cernic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cernic.
- Where is Cernic most common?
- Cernic is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cernic?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 166 people named Cernic, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Cernic?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cernicThe 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, “Cernic”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.