Kron
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kron is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Middle High German krdn(e) ‘garland’, ‘chaplet’, ‘diadem’, Swedish krona (from Latin corona).
- DEGermany1 in 35K◐
- USUnited States1 in 141K
- SESweden1 in 8.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.1K ●
- Sources
- 214 ●
- 1 in 8.8K ◐
across 11 countries
25K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kroen in IE Ireland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
- Middle High Germankrdne●
- Latincorona●
from Middle High German krdn(e) ‘garland’, ‘chaplet’, ‘diadem’, Swedish krona (from Latin corona). As a German surname it may have been a habitational name for someone who lived in a house with this sign or a nickname for a bald or tonsured man. The Swedish surname, on the other hand, is probably an ornamental name.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | 3,199 | 2.9K rec. | — | 1 | Kron | 91 |
| US United States | 2,351 | 19K rec. | 1 in 141K | 2.4K | Kron | 214 |
| SE Sweden | 1,164△ | 239 rec. | 1 in 8.8K | 1.2K | Kron | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | 611 | 627 rec. | — | — | Kron | 22 |
| CA Canada | 409 | 403 rec. | — | — | Kron | 34 |
| AU Australia | 272 | 263 rec. | — | — | Kron | 30 |
| CH Switzerland | 198△ | 55 rec. | 1 in 42K | 198 | Kron | 16 |
| BR Brazil | 167 | 89 rec. | 1 in 1.3M | 167 | Kron | 32 |
| IT Italy | 141 | 149 rec. | — | 1 | Kron | 9 |
| RU Russia | 132 | 109 rec. | — | — | Kron | 7 |
| PH Philippines | 96 | 111 rec. | — | — | Kron | 7 |
| AT Austria | 72 | 42 rec. | — | 16 | Kron | 19 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English18K64%
- German4.3K16%
- French1.1K4%
- Spanish1K4%
- Portuguese3371%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 17,973 | 64% |
| German | 4,345 | 16% |
| French | 1,121 | 4% |
| Spanish | 1,007 | 4% |
| Portuguese | 337 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Kron is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
metronymic from the Yiddish personal name kroyne, a derivative of Yiddish kroyn ‘crown’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In pdt, faucet, tap, water tap, spigot
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, imperative of krone
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In hrx, crown
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1987 | 1 |
| 1988 | 2 |
| 1991 | 1 |
| 1994 | 1 |
| 1995 | 2 |
| 1997 | 1 |
| 1998 | 4 |
| 2000 | 3 |
| 2001 | 1 |
| 2002 | 3 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2004 | 8 |
| 2005 | 7 |
| 2006 | 20 |
| 2007 | 11 |
| 2008 | 19 |
| 2009 | 21 |
| 2010 | 26 |
| 2011 | 27 |
| 2012 | 39 |
| 2013 | 39 |
| 2014 | 56 |
| 2015 | 61 |
| 2016 | 73 |
| 2017 | 89 |
| 2018 | 85 |
| 2019 | 88 |
| 2020 | 78 |
| 2021 | 74 |
| 2022 | 61 |
| 2023 | 80 |
| 2024 | 76 |
| 2025 | 64 |
XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 33 years between 1987–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Gustav Kronb. 1874DEGerman violinist and conductor
- Gabriel Kronb. 1901USengineer, mathematician and former member of the General Engineering Staff at General Electric
- Gerald Kronb. 1913USAmerican astronomer (1913–2012)
- Tamar Kronb. 1937ILpsychologist
- Tommy Kronb. 1943USAmerican basketball player
- Patrick Kronb. 1953FRFrench businessman
- Lisa Kronb. 1961USAmerican actress and playwright
- Robert Kronb. 1967CZCzech ice hockey player
- Andreas Kronb. 1998DKDanish bicycle racer, born 1998
- Katharina Kronb. 2004DEGerman actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 43 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #13,057 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,085 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2K | #14,640 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.2K | #883 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 1.1K | #678 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 198 | #6,320 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 167 | #42,527 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 115 | #2,626 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2017 | 89 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2019 | 88 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2018 | 85 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2023 | 80 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 135 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Kron?
- We estimate roughly 4.1 thousand people bear Kron (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Kron have the most bearers?
- Kron is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled kron.
- Where is Kron most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kron is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 8.8 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Kron mean?
- Recorded meaning: from Middle High German krdn(e) ‘garland’, ‘chaplet’, ‘diadem’, Swedish krona (from Latin corona).
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kron”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.