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
• Leah Cherniak (born 1956), Canadian playwright and theatre director
• Lindsay Czarniak (born 1977), American sports anchor and reporter
• 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

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