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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : status name for a coroner, Anglo-Norman French coro(u)ner, from Old French coro(u)ne ‘crown’, after the Latin title custos placitorum coronæ ‘protector of the pleas of the Crown’.
  • In some cases probably an Americanized form of German Kroner or Kröner (see Kroner).

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