Cerny

3,098 people in the United States were counted with the surname Cerny in the 2020 census, making it the 9,948th most common in the country. That is about one person in 96,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,098
Rank: 9,948th
How common: 1 in 96,500
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

Origin Czech

From Czech Černý.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Cerny described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Cerny

Pavel Černý (born 1962)Czech association football player
David Černý (born 1967)Czech sculptor
Václav Černý (born 1997)Czech association football player
Radek Černý (born 1974)Czech footballer
Mark Cerny (born 1964)American video game designer
Josef Černý (1939–2025)Czech ice hockey player and coach
Harald Cerny (born 1973)Austrian association football player
Jan Černý (1874–1959)Czechoslovak civil servant, prime minister, and provincial president of Moravia

People named Cerny with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Cerny

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.