Cernajevs Surname

2,718,172nd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 51 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Latvia
Highest density in:
Latvia

Cernajevs Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Cernajevs Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Latvia441:46,5927,086
Qatar61:393,00055,922
England11:55,718,059489,080

The alternate forms: Čerņajevs (1) are calculated separately.

Cernajevs Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Cernajevs Come From? nationality or country of origin

Cernajevs is borne by more people in Latvia than any other country or territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms: Čerņajevs. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Cernajevs? popularity and diffusion

The last name Cernajevs is the 2,718,172nd most prevalent last name globally It is held by around 1 in 142,893,057 people. This surname is primarily found in Europe, where 88 percent of Cernajevs live; 88 percent live in Northern Europe and 86 percent live in Baltic Europe.

This last name is most commonly held in Latvia, where it is carried by 44 people, or 1 in 46,592. In Latvia Cernajevs is primarily concentrated in: Riga Planning Region, where 61 percent live, Kurzeme Planning Region, where 36 percent live and Latgale, where 2 percent live. Aside from Latvia this surname occurs in 2 countries. It also occurs in Qatar, where 12 percent live and England, where 2 percent live.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Cernajevs
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