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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Respelling of Czech Černín, from a derivative of černý ‘black’, ‘sable’ (see Cerna), or alternatively a habitational name for someone from Černice or some other place named with this word.
  • Jewish (from Belarus) : metronymic from the eastern Yiddish female personal name Tsherne, derived from Slavic černy ‘black’.

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