Chornyi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃɔɹnii/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chornyi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 2.7Kas Чорний(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 19Kas Черный
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 48Kas Черный
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 Chornyi 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- 1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 named Чорний, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Черный in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus, Чорний in UA Ukraine and Чёрный in MD Moldova.
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 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chornyi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #151 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Чорний | 46 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Черный | 142 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,522 | 1 in 25K | 1.5K | Chornyi | 16 |
| BY Belarus | #894 | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 1 | Черный | 18 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 421 | Черный | 33 |
| MD Moldova | #400 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Чёрный | 7 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE). 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)
- Vasyl Chornyb. 1919UAnot in their usual nameSoviet soldier
- Mykhaylo Chornyib. 1933UAUkrainian artist (1933-2020)
- Viktor Chornyib. 1968UAUkrainian politician
- Hryhoriy ChornyUAnot in their usual nameUkrainian hetman
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.5K | #1,872 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #174,898 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Chornyi?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃɔɹnii/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Chornyi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Чорний in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Chornyi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chornyi is densest in Poland — about 1 in 25 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chornyi?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,522 people named Chornyi in 2026, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Chornyi compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Chornyi is the 151st most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chornyi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chornyiThe 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, “Chornyi” — the 151st most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.