Family 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.