Wahlström

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

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries

/ʋa˥˩hl̪s̪t̪rœm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Wahlström is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Swedish Wahlström, from vall (“pasture”) + ström (“stream”).

rarermore common

SESweden1 in 2.2K(measured from records)
FIFinland1 in 8.2K
BJBenin≈1 in 19K

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)
Record sources: 58 (measured from records)
: 1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

Wahlström

SwedishWahlström(measured from records)
Swedish rootvall“pasture”(measured from records)

Borrowed from Swedish Wahlström, from vall (“pasture”) + ström (“stream”).

Cited for this meaning 1

Wiktionary

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Wahlström 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 Wahlström is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
SE Sweden	#210	4,712	1 in 2.2K	4.7K	Wahlström	58
US United States	—	1,387	1 in 240K	1.4K	Wahlström	8
FI Finland	—	681	1 in 8.2K	681	Wahlström	10
BJ Benin	—	≈660 est.	≈1 in 19K	—	Wahlström	3
DK Denmark	—	22	1 in 267K	22	Wahlström	12

4,712 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; 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

Wahlström is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

English surname24 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada
Languages: English, Swedish, German
Also written Wahlstrom, Wahlstroem, Wåhlström, Wåhlstroem
a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Wahlstrom, Wåhlström
Turkish surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Sweden, United States
Also written Wahlstrom, Wåhlström
Croatian surname8 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Wahlstrom
Spanish surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Panama, Colombia
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Wahlstrom

24 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

Charlotte Wahlströmb. 1849SESwedish artist and painter (1849-1924)
Lydia Wahlströmb. 1869SESwedish suffragist (1869-1954)
Chris Wahlströmb. 1917SESwedish actress
Jarl Wahlströmb. 1918FIGeneral of the Salvation Army (1918–1999)
Johan Wahlströmb. 1952SESwedish comedian and actor
Claes-Göran Wahlströmb. 1956SEphysicist
Anne L'Huillierb. 1958FRnot in their usual nameFrench physicist
Mats Wahlstromb. 1963SESwedish entrepreneur and the founder of Puro Group, Purobeach and Purohotels
Eva Wahlströmb. 1980FIFinnish boxer
Johannes Wahlströmb. 1981SESwedish journalist

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 Wahlström, (English)

InformalHej ,Hello, (English)

Evidence

11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Wahlström
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
SE Sweden	Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)	—	4.7K	#204
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	681	#2,626
FI Finland	DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)	—	312	—
DK Denmark	Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)	—	22	#21,215

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.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Wahlström mean, and where does it come from?: Borrowed from Swedish Wahlström, from vall (“pasture”) + ström (“stream”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Wahlström?: A machine transcription gives /ʋa˥˩hl̪s̪t̪rœm/ (IPA) for Swedish.
In which country does Wahlström have the most bearers?: In Sweden, the national register counted about 4.7 thousand people named Wahlström, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wahlström.
Where is Wahlström most common?: Wahlström is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.2 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Wahlström?: In Sweden, the national register counted 4,712 people named Wahlström, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
How common is Wahlström compared with other names?: In Sweden, Wahlström is the 210th most common surname of 187,334 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/wahlstr%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, “Wahlström” — the 210th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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