Last name origins & meanings:
- French (Cerné): habitational name from any of
numerous places in Calvados, Eure-et-Loire, Vienne, etc., called
Cerné, named with the Roman personal name Cernus, a short
form of Cerenus or Serenus + the locative suffix
-acum.
- Slovenian (Černe): nickname for
someone with black hair or a dark complexion, from črn
‘black’, ‘dark’.
- Probably also Galician: variant of
Cerna.
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