Ahlström

Name: Ahlström: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries

/ahl̪s̪t̪rœm/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated

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Ahlström is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country: 4,373 people, counted by Skatteverket. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Swedish Åhlström, from al (“alder”) + ström (“stream”).

SESweden1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
FIFinland1 in 5.7K
CACanada≈1 in 170Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Sweden (measured from records)
Record sources: 251 (measured from records)
: 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Ahlstrom

Locally spelled Ahlstrom in US United States, SE Sweden, FI Finland and 5 more and Ahlstroem in BJ Benin.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

How to pronounce Ahlström

Swedish:/ahl̪s̪t̪rœm/(machine-generated) model-generated
Finnish:/ɑhs̠t̪rø̞m/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

Ahlström

SwedishÅhlström(measured from records)
Swedish rootal“alder”(measured from records)

Borrowed from Swedish Åhlström, from al (“alder”) + ström (“stream”).

Cited for this meaning 1

Wiktionary

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Ahlström is found

Ahlström counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ahlström is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
SE Sweden	—	4,373	1 in 2.3K	4.4K	Ahlstrom	32
US United States	—	1,772	1 in 188K	1.8K	Ahlstrom	251
FI Finland	—	981	1 in 5.7K	981	Ahlstrom	7
CA Canada	—	≈240 est.	≈1 in 171K	—	Ahlstrom	35
GB United Kingdom	—	≈180 est.	≈1 in 392K	—	Ahlstrom	20
BJ Benin	—	≈160 est.	≈1 in 89K	—	Ahlstroem	2
TC Turks & Caicos Islands	#296	≈6 est.	≈1 in 7.2K	—	Ahlstrom	1
AG Antigua & Barbuda	—	≈3 est.	≈1 in 33K	—	Ahlstrom	1
AI Anguilla	#144	—	—	—	Ahlstrom	2

4,373 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling ahlström. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

Ahlström is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name5 spellings in the group
Also written Ahlstrōm, Ahlstrom, Åhlstrom, Åhlström
French surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Sweden, United States, Benin
Also written Ahlstrom, Åhlström

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

Maire Gullichsenb. 1907FInot in their usual nameFinland Swedish art patron (1907-1990)
Thomas Ahlströmb. 1952SESwedish footballer
Kattis Ahlströmb. 1966SESwedish journalist and television personality

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

FormalHej ,Dear Ahlström, (English)

InformalHej ,Hello, (English)

Evidence

10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ahlström mean, and where does it come from?: Borrowed from Swedish Åhlström, from al (“alder”) + ström (“stream”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Ahlström?: It depends on the language: in Swedish /ahl̪s̪t̪rœm/; in Finnish /ɑhs̠t̪rø̞m/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Ahlström?: In Sweden, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Ahlström, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ahlstrom. After it come United States, Finland, Canada and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Ahlström most common?: Ahlström is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Ahlström?: In Sweden, the national register counted 4,373 people named Ahlström, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
How common is Ahlström compared with other names?: In Anguilla, Ahlström is the 144th most common surname of 7,424 surnames recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ahlstr%C3%B6m

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-13 and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ahlström” — ranked 218th in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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