Chernis
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/t͡ʃeɾnis/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Chernis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 128 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Chernis is also written Чернис in Cyrillic.
- ARArgentina1 in 1.7M(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.6M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
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 Chernis 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 285K (inferred from the name graph)
128 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Chernis in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Чернис in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Черніс in UA Ukraine.
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.
How to pronounce Chernis
- Spanish:/t͡ʃeɾnis/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Chernis is found
(measured from records)Chernis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 128 | 1 in 2.6M | 128 | Chernis | 95 |
| RU Russia | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Чернис | 62 |
| CA Canada | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Chernis | 17 |
| IL Israel | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 285K | — | Chernis | 8 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Chernis | 6 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Черніс | 11 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Чернис | 14 |
| NO Norway | 4as Cernis | 1 in 1.4M | 4 | — | — |
128 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)- Jay Chernisb. 1906USAmerican composer, lyricist, and conductor (1906-1996)
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 4 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Chernis?
- In Spanish /t͡ʃeɾnis/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Chernis?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 128 people named Chernis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chernis. After it come Russia, Canada, Israel and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Chernis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 128 people named Chernis in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Chernis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chernisThe 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, “Chernis” — ranked 132206th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.