Serna
surname · Latin script
Meaning: worked on a plot of land owned by the lord of the manor and cultivated for him as part of the prescribed feudal ser¬ vice, Sp
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/seɾna/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Serna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- PEPeru≈1 in 3.5K
- ESSpain1 in 4.1K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 356 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈48,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
worked on a plot of land owned by the lord of the manor and cultivated for him as part of the prescribed feudal ser¬ vice, Sp. sema (OSp. senera, apparently of Celt, origin, composed of the separative prefix sen- + ar to plough, cul¬ tivate). There are several places in Spain named with this word, and the surname could also be a habitation name from any of these.
Sources 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Serna 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #120 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 34 | Serna | 164 |
| US United States | — | 25,503 | 1 in 13K | 26K | Serna | 356 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Serna | 64 |
| ES Spain | #316 | 12,121 | 1 in 4.1K | 12K | Serna | 164 |
| PE Peru | #503 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Serna | 70 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 513 | 1 in 6.6K | 513 | — | 21 |
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: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Serna is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, a surname from Spanish, most associated with actress Snooky Serna
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta Zviedrijā, Dālarnas lēnē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Pepe Sernab. 1944USNative Mexican-American character actor and artist
- Carlos Zárate Sernab. 1951MXMexican boxer
- Assumpta Sernab. 1957ESSpanish actress
- Luis María Atienza Sernab. 1957ESSpanish politician and economist
- Nelson Rodríguez Sernab. 1965COroad bicycle racer
- Mauricio Sernab. 1968COColombian footballer
- Andrea Sernab. 1975COColombian broadcaster
- Magüi Sernab. 1979ESSpanish tennis player
- Yordy Reynab. 1993PEnot in their usual namePeruvian footballer
- Léa Sernab. 1999FRFrench figure skater
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 36 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 26K | #1,390 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 25K | #1,398 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 20K | #1,662 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 12K | #450 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 12K | #450 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 513 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 34 | #82 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Serna come from?
- worked on a plot of land owned by the lord of the manor and cultivated for him as part of the prescribed feudal ser¬ vice, Sp. sema (OSp. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Serna?
- A machine transcription gives /seɾna/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Serna mean?
- Recorded meaning: worked on a plot of land owned by the lord of the manor and cultivated for him as part of the prescribed feudal ser¬ vice, Sp.
- In which country does Serna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named Serna in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled serna.
- How common is the name Serna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 25,503 people named Serna in 2010, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Serna compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Serna is the 120th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sernaThe 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, “Serna” — the 120th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.