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First name origin & meaning:

Czechoslovakian: Black

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Czech (Černý): from černý ‘black’, hence a nickname for a black-haired person, or someone with a dark complexion, sometimes used as a nickname for the devil.
  2. French: habitational name from either of two places, in Aisne and Essonne, named Cerny, from the Roman personal name Serenus + the suffix -iacus, denoting an estate.

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