Kooning Kooning is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Willem de Kooning (1904–1997), Dutch American artist Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989), American artist Surname listThis page lists people with the surname Kooning. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link. vteFamily names derived from the word "king"Germanic West Germanic: De Coninck, De Koninck, King, König, Koning, Konings, Konink, Kooning Romance Latin: Rex Iberian: Rey Slavic East Slavic: Korol, Korolchuk, Korolenko, Korolev/Korolyov, Karolik/Korolik, Korolyuk South Slavic: Kralj, Kraljević West Slavic: Král, Kráľ, Król Borrowed into other languages: Kral Other Baltic: Karalius Estonian: Kuningas Finnish: Kuningas Hungarian: Király Chinese: Wang Vietnamese: Vương