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 surname Cernjak is more frequently found in Slovenia than any other country/territory. It can also be found in the variant forms: Černjak or Ćernjak. Click here for other potential spellings of this last name.
How Common Is The Last Name Cernjak? popularity and diffusion
This last name is the 2,661,929th most prevalent surname world-wide, held by around 1 in 137,500,866 people. This last name is primarily found in Europe, where 70 percent of Cernjak reside; 64 percent reside in Southeastern Europe and 64 percent reside in South Slavic Europe.
The surname is most commonly held in Slovenia, where it is held by 17 people, or 1 in 146,334. In Slovenia it is most common in: Central Slovenia, where 94 percent reside and Savinja, where 6 percent reside. Barring Slovenia it is found in 10 countries. It also occurs in Croatia, where 23 percent reside and Australia, where 11 percent reside.
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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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