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Last name origin & meaning:

Americanized spelling of a German name: perhaps Kronauer, a habitational name for someone from Kronau near Heidelberg, or Kronhöfer, a variant of Grünhofer, a habitational name for someone from a lost place called Grünhof, from Middle High German grūene ‘green’ or kranech ‘crane’ + hof ‘farmstead’.