Kronenberg Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

The Kronenberg last name has German roots. Elsdon Smith's dictionary of American family names explains it as “one who came from Kronenberg or Cronenberg (crown mountain), in West Germany”.

• Kronenberg ranked 27,435 in the 2010 US Census, with 879 people answering to the name. French birth records list 100 children named Kronenberg between 1891 and 2000. There were 8 such births in the 1890s and 5 in the 1990s.
• That makes it a habitational name, first given to someone from that place.
• The name also appears as Kronenberger.

Arms associated with the name

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Kronenberg family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them. Research your Kronenberg family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.