Kerne
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
/kɛɾne/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Kerne is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 313 people, counted by IBGE.
- BRBrazil1 in 676K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 676K (inferred from the name graph)
313 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Kerne
- Portuguese:/kɛɾne/(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.
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kerne is found
(measured from records)Kerne 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 313 | 1 in 676K | 313 | Kerne | 28 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | — | Kerne | 5 |
| US United States | — | — | listed | Kerne | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | — | — | Kerne | 5 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | — | Kerne | 2 |
313 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kerne is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, nominative/accusative/genitive plural of Kern
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, A kern (kind of light Irish soldier)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, core, central thing
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In efi, be able
as a wordEfik language
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Kerne?
- In the etymology graph, Kern is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Kerne?
- In Portuguese /kɛɾne/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kerne have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 313 people named Kerne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kerne.
- Where is Kerne most common?
- Kerne is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 676 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kerne?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 313 people named Kerne, about 1 in 676 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kerne?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kerneThe 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, “Kerne” — ranked 25483rd in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.