Czerny
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Übername zu tschech./poln
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/k͡sɐnɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Czerny is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 50K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
- ATAustria≈1 in 17K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Übername zu tschech./poln. černý/czarny 'schwarz' (Haar-/Hautfarbe); 450+680 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Czerny is read(measured from records)
Czerny is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German42%
Übername zu tschech./poln. černý/czarny 'schwarz' (Haar-/Hautfarbe); 450+680 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Polnischer Belegname mit anlautendem Cz-; Zahl der Träger: 1440.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
from Slavic *cerny/czarny 'black'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
- English36%
Karl, Austrian pianist/composer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Polish10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Czerny in Polish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Czerny 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Czerny | 87 |
| PL Poland | 1,428 | 1 in 27K | 715 | Czerny | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Czerny | 45 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 338K | — | Czerny | 1 |
| US United States | 253 | 1 in 1.3M | 253 | Czerny | 131 |
| CZ Czechia | 50 | 1 in 214K | 50 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 15 | 1 in 140K | 15 | — | 1 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
- Joseph Czernyb. 1785CZAustrian composer (1785–1831)
- Carl Czernyb. 1791ATAustrian composer and pianist (1791-1857)
- Leander Czernyb. 1859ATAustrian entomologist (1859-1944)
- Adalbert Czernyb. 1863ATChildren's doctor (1863-1941)
- Władysław Czernyb. 1899PLPolish architect
- Anna Czernyb. 1902ATAustrian politician (1902-1992)
- Halina Czerny-Stefańskab. 1922PLPolish musician (1922–2001)
- Michael Czernyb. 1946VACanadian Jesuit and Catholic cardinal
- Bożena Czernyb. 1952PLPolish astronomer
- Henry Czernyb. 1959CACanadian film, stage and television actor
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 715 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 715 | #4,325 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 713 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 713 | #4,465 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 253 | #76,029 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 239 | #75,219 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 229 | #87,312 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 15 | #15,882 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 11 | #78,168 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 11 | #18,121 |
| 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
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- How do you pronounce Czerny?
- A machine transcription gives /k͡sɐnɪ/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Czerny mean?
- Recorded meaning: Übername zu tschech./poln.
- In which country does Czerny have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Czerny in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled czerny.
- How common is the name Czerny?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,428 people named Czerny in 2026, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/czernyThe 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, “Czerny”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.