Kron
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Middle High German krdn(e) ‘garland’, ‘chaplet’, ‘diadem’, Swedish krona (from Latin corona)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɹɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kron is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 141K
- SESweden1 in 8.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 248 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- Middle High Germankrdne(measured from records)
- Latincorona(measured from records)
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
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kron counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 115K | — | Kron | 2 |
| US United States | 2,351 | 1 in 141K | 2.4K | Kron | 248 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | Kron | 99 |
| SE Sweden | 1,164 | 1 in 8.8K | 1.2K | Kron | 34 |
| EG Egypt | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 344K | — | Kron | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 198 | 1 in 42K | 198 | Kron | 21 |
| FI Finland | 52 | 1 in 107K | 52 | — | 1 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the dfa-band-1 register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 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 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 198 | #6,320 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 52 | #21,963 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kron mean, and where does it come from?
- from Middle High German krdn(e) ‘garland’, ‘chaplet’, ‘diadem’, Swedish krona (from Latin corona). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kron?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹɑn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kron have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Kron in China, more than in any other country we hold, 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 China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kron?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,351 people named Kron in 2010, about 1 in 141 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kronThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kron”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.