Kröhn
surname · Latin script
Kröhn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: nickname for a tall, thin person with long legs, from Middle High German krdn, krdn ‘crane’. Compare Krahn.
- DEGermany≈1 in 377K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 764K
- ATAustria≈1 in 830K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kröhn itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 377K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kroehn in AU Australia, US United States, PL Poland.
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)
nickname for a tall, thin person with long legs, from Middle High German krdn, krdn ‘crane’. Compare Krahn.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kröhn 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Kröhn | 36 |
| AU Australia | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 376K | — | Kroehn | 31 |
| BR Brazil | 30as Kroehn | 1 in 7.1M | 30 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 23M | — | Kroehn | 16 |
| PL Poland | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | — | Kroehn | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 14 | 1 in 764K | 14 | — | — |
| AT Austria | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Kröhn | 7 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bohumil Kröhnb. 1905CZCzech photographer
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(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 14 | #66,480 |
Reference works 1
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kröhn mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname for a tall, thin person with long legs, from Middle High German krdn, krdn ‘crane’. Compare Krahn. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kröhn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 213 people named Kröhn in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kröhn.
- How common is the name Kröhn?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 14 people named Kröhn, about 1 in 764 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kr%C3%B6hnThe 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, “Kröhn”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.