Cherni
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃeɲi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cherni is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tunisia than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 118K(inferred from the name graph)
- TNTunisia≈1 in 1.4K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 191K
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.
- Tunisia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Tunisia, est.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cherni 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TN Tunisia | #952 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Cherni | 18 |
| FR France | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 118K | 58 | Cherni | 119 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 393K | listed | Cherni | 6 |
| US United States | — | 103 | 1 in 3.2M | 106 | Cherni | 95 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Cherni | 40 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 44 | 1 in 191K | 44 | Cherni | 5 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 692K | — | Cherni | 5 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
- Amor Chernib. 1945TNTunisian academic
- Majdouline Chernib. 1981TNTunisian politician
- Socrate Chernib. 1985TNsenior lieutenant of the Tunisian National Guard
- Mohamed Chernib. 1985TNTunisian association football player
- Skander Chernib. 1996TNTunisian rower
- Amin Chernib. 2001FRTunisian and French association football player
- Yael CherniILIsraeli singer
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 106 | #152,339 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 103 | #157,234 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 102 | #148,244 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 45 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 44 | #20,543 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 1 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 1 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Cherni?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃeɲi/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Cherni have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.3 thousand people named Cherni in Tunisia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cherni.
- How common is the name Cherni?
- In the United States, the national register counted 103 people named Cherni in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
- How common is Cherni compared with other names?
- In Tunisia, Cherni is the 952nd most common surname of 37,763 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Cherni?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cherniThe 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, “Cherni” — the 952nd most common surname in Tunisia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.