Cerney Family History
Cerney Name Meaning
Americanized form of Slovenian Cerne (see
Cerne), Czech Cerný (see Cerny), or Slovak (Cernej).Americanized form of Cserney, a Hungarian habitational name
for someone from a place called Cserne, formerly in Trencsény
county, now in Slovakia, or Csernye in Veszprém county.Possibly also English, a habitational name from North and South
Cerney or Cerney Wick, all in Gloucestershire, which are named for the
Churn river, on which they stand, + Old English ea
‘stream’. The river name is of Celtic origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cerney Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cerney families
 9 - 16  4 - 8 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cerney Family Origin
Cerney Emigration Information (US)
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Cerney Family Occupations
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