Cernjak Surname
Approximately 53 people bear this surname
Cernjak Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slovenia | 17 | 1:146,334 | 13,558 |
| Croatia | 12 | 1:352,384 | 32,084 |
| Australia | 6 | 1:4,499,284 | 146,780 |
| Canada | 6 | 1:6,140,932 | 260,641 |
| Serbia | 5 | 1:1,428,990 | 29,746 |
| Argentina | 2 | 1:21,371,707 | 253,176 |
| Germany | 1 | 1:80,505,459 | 560,955 |
| Moldova | 1 | 1:3,561,368 | 78,271 |
| Spain | 1 | 1:46,752,036 | 156,870 |
| United States | 1 | 1:362,458,933 | 1,988,048 |
| Venezuela | 1 | 1:30,204,077 | 85,459 |
The alternate forms: Černjak (169) & Ćernjak (1) are calculated separately.
Cernjak Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Cernjak Come From? nationality or country of origin
The last name Cernjak is borne by more people in Slovenia than any other country/territory. It may also appear as a variant: Černjak or Ćernjak. Click here to see other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Cernjak? popularity and diffusion
The last name Cernjak is the 2,661,929th most commonly used last name worldwide, borne by approximately 1 in 137,500,866 people. The surname Cernjak occurs predominantly in Europe, where 70 percent of Cernjak reside; 64 percent reside in Southeastern Europe and 64 percent reside in South Slavic Europe.
This last name is most frequently used in Slovenia, where it is carried by 17 people, or 1 in 146,334. In Slovenia Cernjak is most common in: Central Slovenia, where 94 percent are found and Savinja, where 6 percent are found. Without taking into account Slovenia Cernjak is found in 10 countries. It is also common in Croatia, where 23 percent are found and Australia, where 11 percent are found.
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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 Cernjak
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