Čerba

surname · Latin script

Čerba is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 128K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 372K
  • CZCzechia1 in 1.5M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

103 people, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 128K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ČerbaLatin(measured from records)
ЦербаCyrillic(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)

recorded in Lithuanian

Greičiausiai iš sl. *Ščerba, plg. brus. ITuop6a, IlĮep6a, Ilap6a (M. Bup»ina, 1969, c. 489 — 490), rus. INepoa (H. Tynuxos, 1903, c. 453), ukr. IĮep6a (FO. Penxo, 1969, c. 244). Dėl liet. priebalsio č iš sl. šė, plg. Čžponas (žr.) iš lenk. Szczepan.

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Čerba 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.

Where Čerba is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland1031 in 372K60——
HR Croatia331 in 128K33Čerba9
CZ Czechia71 in 1.5M7——
CL Chile——1——

103 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Čerba is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Cerba

  • Lithuanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania

    Also written Cerba

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cerba

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Syria

    Also written Cerba

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Čerba is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Lithuanian, Greičiausiai iš sl. *Ščerba, plg. brus. ITuop6a, IlĮep6a, Ilap6a (M. Bup»ina, 1969, c. 489 — 490), rus. INepoa (H. Tynuxos, 1903, c. 453), ukr. IĮep6a (FO. Penxo, 1969, c. 244). Dėl liet. priebalsio č iš sl. šė, plg. Čžponas (žr.) iš lenk. Szczepan.

    as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Čerba
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202133#17,528
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202126—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—7#96,464

Reference works 1

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)

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

In which country does Čerba have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 103 people named Čerba, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Čerba most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Čerba is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 128 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Čerba?
In Poland, the national register counted 103 people named Čerba in 2026, about 1 in 372 thousand residents.

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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, “Čerba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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