Björkman

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/bj9rkman/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Björkman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From björk (“birch”) + man (“man”).

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 263K
  • FIFinland1 in 2.3K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

6,857 people

Sources
213 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bjorkman in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada.

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.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From björk (“birch”) + man (“man”).

Sources 1

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Björkman 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 Björkman is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#1396,8571 in 1.5K6.9KBjörkman72
FI Finland—2,4031 in 2.3K2.4KBjörkman14
US United States—1,2631 in 263K1.3KBjorkman213
BJ Benin#572≈770 est.≈1 in 17K—Björkman3
GB United Kingdom—≈260 est.≈1 in 254K—Bjorkman35
CA Canada—≈250 est.≈1 in 149K—Bjorkman42
DK Denmark—421 in 140K42Björkman13

6,857 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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(inferred from the name graph)

Björkman is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Bjorkman, Bjôrkman, Bjõrkman

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Sweden, United States, Finland

    Also written Bjorkman

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Egypt

    Also written Bjorkman

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States

    Also written Bjorkman

28 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(measured from records)

1850190019502000Carl Björkman, b. 1869Carl Björkman, b. 1873Astrid Björkman, b. 1886Tönnes Björkman, b. 1888Beata Bergström, b. 1921Stig Björkman, b. 1938Jan Björkman, b. 1950Christer Björkman, b. 1957Hannu-Pekka Björkman, b. 1969Jonas Björkman, b. 1972

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(machine-generated)

FormalHej ,Dear Björkman, (English)
InformalHej ,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Björkman
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—6.9K#137
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—2.4K#834
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—966—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—42#12,382

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Björkman mean, and where does it come from?
From björk (“birch”) + man (“man”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Björkman?
A machine transcription gives /bj9rkman/ (IPA) for Swedish.
In which country does Björkman have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 6.9 thousand people named Björkman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled björkman.
Where is Björkman most common?
Björkman is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Björkman?
In Sweden, the national register counted 6,857 people named Björkman, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
How common is Björkman compared with other names?
In Sweden, Björkman is the 139th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 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, “Björkman” — the 139th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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