German, Dutch, and Swedish: from Middle High German
kron(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.Jewish (Ashkenazic):
variant of Krone.Jewish (Ashkenazic): metronymic from the
Yiddish personal name kroyne, a derivative of Yiddish
kroyn ‘crown’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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