The suburb is named after the previous landowner and descendants of Hendrick Abraham Alberts.[2] The word Kroon in its name refers to a crown of a hill.[2] The land is situated on the portion of an old Witwatersrand farm called Waterval around 1896.[2]
123Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p.1412. ISBN9781868425501.
