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crown Name Meaning and History

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

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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crown Family Facts

Distribution of crown Families in the US in 1920
Number of crown families
 37-72
 13-36		 1-12
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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