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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish and Galician : nickname for a tough, hard-headed individual, from cerna ‘heartwood’.
  • Hungarian (Cérna) : from the cérna ‘thread’, hence an metonymic occupational name for a tailor.
  • Czech and Slovak (Černa) : nickname from the feminine form of Czech černý , Slovak čierny ‘black’, ‘dark’.

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