Krön
surname · Latin script
Krön is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from Middle High German krdn(e) ‘garland’, ‘chaplet’, ‘diadem’, Swedish krona (from Latin corona).
- 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)
Locally spelled Kron in US United States, DE Germany, SE Sweden and 3 more.
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 across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Krön 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; 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)
Krön 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 Swedish, a crest, a crown (top part of something)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Krön 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.
- In which country does Krön have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Krön in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kron.
- Where is Krön most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Krön 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 Krön?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,351 people named Krön in 2010, about 1 in 141 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kr%C3%B6nThe 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, “Krön”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.