Crom Surname Guide

Families named Crom carry an English surname with a long history. The usual explanation, from Elsdon Smith, is “the crooked, or deformed, person”.

Arms associated with the name

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Crom family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

Surname origin

Smith also lists Crume.

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Crom with 571 bearers, at rank 38,691. That is enough to place it in the top 50,000 American surnames. French civil records give 294 births under the name Crom from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1921–1930. Research your Crom family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.