Crown Family History
Crown Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Craon in Mayenne France. English: nickname from Middle English coroune croun(e) ‘crown garland chaplet’ also ‘crown of the head’ (Old French corone) perhaps with reference to the wearing of a garland at celebrations or to physical appearance (a tonsured or bald head perhaps) or to a state of the mind. One late 13th-century Nottinghamshire family called Croune is more fully named as Madythecroune ‘mad in the head’. English: occasionally a habitational name for someone who lived or worked at an inn called The Crown from Middle English coroune croun(e) ‘crown’. English: variant of Crone 2 pronounced to rhyme with grown. Irish (Leitrim): Anglicized form of Croghan perhaps adapted to the surname Crown or Crone . Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Swedish Kron ‘crown’ or cognates in other languages.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
