Kronig
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kʁoːnɪç/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kronig is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 31K(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 95K
- DEGermany≈1 in 570K
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 Kronig 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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
270 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Krönig in DE Germany and Kroenig in CA Canada.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kronig 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 270 | 1 in 31K | 270 | Kronig | 26 |
| DE Germany | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 570K | — | Krönig | 33 |
| AT Austria | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Kronig | 19 |
| BR Brazil | 66 | 1 in 3.2M | 66 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 628K | — | Kroenig | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 11 | 1 in 1.6M | 11 | — | 2 |
270 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)
Kronig is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In vo, chronicle
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)
- Artur Kronigb. 1896PL(1896-1953)
- Ralph Kronigb. 1904DEGerman physicist noted for the discovery of particle spin and for his theory of X-ray absorption spectroscopy (1904-1995)
- Alfred Kronigb. 1928CHSwiss cross-country skier (1928-2020)
- Victor Kronigb. 1933CHSwiss cross-country skier
- Nora Kronig Romerob. 1980CHSwiss diplomat
- Jan Kronigb. 2000CHSwiss association football player
- Elena Kronigb. 2004CHSwiss 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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 270 | #4,836 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 66 | #86,090 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 11 | #61,670 |
Reference works 3
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Kronig?
- A machine transcription gives /kʁoːnɪç/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Kronig have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 270 people named Kronig, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kronig.
- Where is Kronig most common?
- Kronig is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 31 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kronig?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 270 people named Kronig in 2024, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kronig?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kronigThe 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, “Kronig”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.