Chernyak

Chernyak, Czerniak, Czarniak, Cherniak or Cherniack is a gender-neutral Slavic surname. It is derived from čьrnъ ("black").[1][2][3]

Czerniak and Czarniak are the Polish variants, with Czerniak being about six times more common.[4][5]

Language Masculine Feminine
Belarusian Чарняк
(Čarniak, Charniak, Charnyak)
Polish Czerniak ([ˈt͡ʂɛrnjak])
Czarniak ([ˈt͡ʂarnjak])
Russian
(Romanization)		 Черняк
(Chernyak, Cherniak, Černiak)
Slovak Černák Černáková
Ukrainian
(Romanization)		 Черняк
(Chernyak, Cherniak, Černiak)
Other Čerňák, Černjak, Tcherniak, Tschernjak

People

  • Alexey Chernyak (born 1973), Russian politician
  • Andrzej Czarniak (1931–1985), Polish alpine skier
  • Boris Cherniak (born 1964), Russian-born comedy hypnotist, motivational speaker, entertainer, author, illusionist and hypnotherapist
  • Christopher Cherniak, American philosophy academic
  • Evgeniy Chernyak (born 1969), Ukrainian businessman
  • Konrad Czerniak (born 1989), Polish swimmer
  • Leah Cherniak (born 1956), Canadian playwright and theatre director
  • Lindsay Czarniak (born 1977), American sports anchor and reporter
  • Moshe Czerniak (1910–1984), Polish-Israeli chess master
  • Nathalie Sarraute (born Natalya Chernyak, 1900–1999), French lawyer and writer
  • Saul Cherniack (1917–2018), Canadian lawyer and politician
  • Volodymyr Chernyak (1941–2021), Ukrainian politician
  • Włodzimierz Czarniak (1934–1964), Polish alpine skier
  • Yan Chernyak (1909–1995), World War II Soviet spy
  • Brothers Tim Czerniak and Elis Czerniak of Halves (band)

References

  1. ^ "Cherniak". ancestry.com.
  2. ^ "Czerniak". ancestry.com.
  3. ^ "Czarniak". ancestry.com.
  4. ^ "Czerniak". moikrewni.pl.
  5. ^ "Czarniak". moikrewni.pl.

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Chernyak
  • All pages with titles containing Cherniak
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Surnames derived from the color Black
Celtic
English
  • Black
German/Yiddish
Other GermanicFinno-Ugric
  • Fekete
  • Must
Romance
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