Boström
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bu:%str9m/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boström is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Swedish Boström, from bo (“home, dwelling”) + ström (“stream, current”).
- SESweden1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 156K
- FIFinland1 in 3.2K
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)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
7,153 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bostrom in US United States, BJ Benin, CN China.
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)
- SwedishBoström(measured from records)
- Swedish rootbo“home“home, dwelling”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Swedish Boström, from bo (“home, dwelling”) + ström (“stream, current”).
Sources 1
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boström 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #119 | 7,153 | 1 in 1.4K | 7.2K | Boström | 64 |
| CN China | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Bostrom | 3 |
| US United States | — | 2,129 | 1 in 156K | 2.1K | Bostrom | 272 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,755 | 1 in 3.2K | 1.8K | Boström | 14 |
| BJ Benin | #630 | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Bostrom | 3 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 102K | — | Boström | 10 |
| DK Denmark | — | 39 | 1 in 150K | 39 | Boström | 16 |
7,153 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Christopher Jacob Boströmb. 1797SESwedish philosopher (1797–1866)
- Erik Gustaf Boströmb. 1842SESwedish 19th/early 20th century prime minister (1842-1907)
- Filip Boströmb. 1843SESwedish military and civil servant (1843–1908)
- Ebba Boströmb. 1844SESwedish nurse and philanthropist (1844–1902)
- Erik Boströmb. 1869SEsport shooter (1869–1932)
- Wollmar Boströmb. 1878SESwedish tennis player and diplomat (1878-1956)
- Curt Boströmb. 1926SESwedish politician and civil servant
- Donald Boströmb. 1954SESwedish journalist, photographer and writer
- Peter Boströmb. 1971SESwedish songwriter
- Nick Bostromb. 1973SEphilosopher and writer (born 1973)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7.2K | #128 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.8K | #1,122 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 673 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 39 | #13,142 |
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 Boström mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Swedish Boström, from bo (“home, dwelling”) + ström (“stream, current”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Boström?
- A machine transcription gives /bu:%str9m/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Boström have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 7.2 thousand people named Boström, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boström.
- Where is Boström most common?
- Boström is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Boström?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 7,153 people named Boström, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Boström compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Boström is the 119th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Boström?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bostr%C3%B6mThe 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 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, “Boström” — the 119th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.