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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Craon in Mayenne, France.
  • English : habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a crown, Middle English croun.
  • This name has probably also assimilated examples of German or Swedish Kron ‘crown’, or cognates in other languages.

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