How common is the surname Kroon?

1,291 people in the United States had the surname Kroon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 239,152 Americans. It ranked 20,541st of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kroon?

In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Kroon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kroon getting more or less common?

More common. 1,145 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,291 in 2010, up 13%.

The surname Kroon

A surname, carried by 1,291 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K650

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kroon is more common than 87.3% of them.

Origin

* As a Dutch surname, from the noun kroon (“crown”). * As a Swedish and north/Low German surname, variant of Kron.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,291 people named Kroon in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 239,152 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,145.

#20,541

rank among US surnames

1,291

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+12.8%

change since 2000 (was #21,323)

Who is named Kroon

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Kroon identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.7% as Black (not Hispanic).

White (not Hispanic) 93%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 1.7%
Two or more races 0.9%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kroon

Kroon has the Soundex code K650, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K650.

Questions

Where does the surname Kroon come from?: * As a Dutch surname, from the noun kroon (“crown”). * As a Swedish and north/Low German surname, variant of Kron.
How common is the surname Kroon?: 1,291 people in the United States had the surname Kroon in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 239,152 Americans. It ranked 20,541st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kroon?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Kroon identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kroon getting more or less common?: More common. 1,145 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,291 in 2010, up 13%.