Chern Family History
Chern Name Meaning
Chinese: variant of Chen 1 and Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 莊 possibly based on its Teochew pronunciation see Zhuang . American shortened form of whichever of mainly East Slavic and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) surnames beginning with Chern- or Čern- and directly or indirectly derived from a Slavic adjective meaning ‘black dark’ (see Cherny ) e.g. Ukrainian Chernoshtan a nickname based on a Russian-influenced form of Ukrainian chornoshtan ‘one with black trousers’. Compare Cherne
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022