Chromy
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: chrome-like
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɹəmi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chromy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 12K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 13K
- PLPoland1 in 38K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
997 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Chromý in SK Slovakia.
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)
lame, limping
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Chromy is read(measured from records)
Chromy is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English68%
chrome-like
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Polish7.7%
lame, limping
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German6.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Chromy in German.
- Czech6.4%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Chromy in Czech.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chromy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 997 | 1 in 38K | 522 | Chromy | 38 |
| CZ Czechia | 903 | 1 in 12K | 903 | Chromy | 41 |
| SK Slovakia | 411 | 1 in 13K | 411 | Chromý | 17 |
| US United States | 358 | 1 in 929K | 358 | Chromy | 32 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 913K | — | Chromy | 12 |
| SE Sweden | 16 | 1 in 638K | 16 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 9 | 1 in 234K | 9 | — | 2 |
997 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Chromy is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In dsb, lame (unable to walk properly)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In zlw-opl, crippled; lame; helpless
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)
- Bronisław Chromyb. 1925PLPolish sculptor (1925-2017)
- Anna Chromýb. 1940CZCzech painter and sculptor (1940–2021)
- Bolesław Chromryb. 1987PLnot in their usual namePolish illustrator, painter, graphic designer
- Yvonne Chromyb. 1996ATAustrian association football player
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 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 522 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 522 | #6,116 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 475 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 475 | #6,864 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 358 | #56,972 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 348 | #62,198 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 317 | #59,611 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 22 | #51,045 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 22 | #14,859 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 16 | #29,979 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 9 | #20,688 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- Where does the name Chromy come from?
- lame, limping Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chromy?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹəmi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Chromy mean?
- In English, chrome-like
- In which country does Chromy have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 997 people named Chromy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chromy.
- Where is Chromy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chromy is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 12 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Chromy?
- In Poland, the national register counted 997 people named Chromy in 2026, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Chromy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chromyThe 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, “Chromy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.