Cron surname: U.S. census count, rank and records | FamilyCrests

The Cron surname

In the 2000 U.S. Census, 2,923 people carried this name — #10,137 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 92,600 people counted.

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In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 637 people named Cron.

9 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 41 départements, most often Ille-et-Vilaine.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they were born

Born outside France 9
Ille-et-Vilaine 113
Bas-Rhin 101
Deux-Sèvres 58
Haut-Rhin 52
Paris 38
Vienne 37
Indre-et-Loire 36
Charente-Maritime 32

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

72 people named Cron live in Switzerland.

They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Stadt.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Basel-Stadt 23
Zurich 14
Basel-Landschaft 11
Bern 8
Lucerne 5
Aargau 4
Nidwalden 4
Fribourg 3

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

When the index is not enough

This page says where Cron is.
A volume says what happened to it.

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