Nordström
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Swedish surname; from nord 'north' + ström 'stream'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nu:d`%s`t`r9m/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nordström is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 58th most common surname.
- SESweden1 in 850(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 44K
- USUnited States1 in 61K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 343 (measured from records)
- 1 in 850 (inferred from the name graph)
12,002 people
recorded for this name
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 Nordstrom in US United States, CA Canada, JM Jamaica and 1 more.
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)
Swedish surname; from nord 'north' + ström 'stream'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nordström 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 | #58 | 12,002 | 1 in 850 | 12K | Nordström | 73 |
| US United States | — | 5,498 | 1 in 61K | 5.5K | Nordstrom | 343 |
| FI Finland | #564 | 4,840 | 1 in 1.2K | 4.8K | Nordström | 22 |
| BJ Benin | #264 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Nordström | 4 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Nordstrom | 2 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Nordstrom | 81 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Nordstrom | 1 |
12,002 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). 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)
- Karl Nordströmb. 1855SESwedish painter (1855–1923)
- Gunnar Nordströmb. 1881FIFinnish physicist (1881–1923)
- Ester Blenda Nordströmb. 1891SESwedish writer and explorer
- Anders Nordströmb. 1960SESwedish physician, Director of WHO
- Fredrik Nordströmb. 1967SESwedish record producer
- Tina Nordströmb. 1973SESwedish chef
- Peter Nordströmb. 1974SESwedish ice hockey player
- Joel Kinnamanb. 1979SEnot in their usual nameSwedish-American actor
- Joakim Nordströmb. 1992SESwedish ice hockey player
- Johannes Nordströmb. 1993FIFinnish footballer
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 14 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12K | #62 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 4.8K | #386 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.9K | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Nordström mean, and where does it come from?
- Swedish surname; from nord 'north' + ström 'stream' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Nordström?
- A machine transcription gives /nu:d`%s`t`r9m/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Nordström have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 12 thousand people named Nordström, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nordström.
- Where is Nordström most common?
- Nordström is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 850 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nordström?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 12,002 people named Nordström, about 1 in 850 residents.
- How common is Nordström compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Nordström is the 58th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nordström?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nordstr%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, “Nordström” — the 58th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.