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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (also Kröhn) : nickname for a tall, thin person with long legs, from Middle High German krān, krōn ‘crane’. Compare Krahn.
  • German : from an old personal name based on Old High German gruoni ‘green’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Kron.

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