Lindstrom
surname · Latin script
Meaning: invented Swedish name literally ‘lime-tree river’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫɪndstɹəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lindstrom is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common surname.
- FIFinland1 in 391(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 421
- USUnited States1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lindstrom itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 367 (measured from records)
- 1 in 185 (inferred from the name graph)
24,245 people
Highest-authority source
Åland Islands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lindström in SE Sweden, FI Finland, NO Norway 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)
invented Swedish name literally ‘lime-tree river’
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lindstrom 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 | #24 | 24,245 | 1 in 421 | 24K | Lindström | 94 |
| FI Finland | #135 | 14,241 | 1 in 391 | 14K | Lindström | 39 |
| US United States | — | 9,754 | 1 in 34K | 9.8K | Lindstrom | 367 |
| BJ Benin | #106 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Lindström | 5 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 167K | — | Lindstrom | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,368as Lindstrøm | 1 in 4K | 1.4K | Lindström | 16 |
| AX Åland Islands | — | 142 | 1 in 185 | 142 | — | 4 |
24,245 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); ÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Lindstrom is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
ornamental name composed of the elements lind ‘lime tree’ -t- strom ‘river’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Freddie Lindstromb. 1905USAmerican baseball player and coach
- Chuck Lindstromb. 1936USAmerican baseball player
- Gary Lindstromb. 1944USAmerican computer scientist
- David Lindstromb. 1948NZNew Zealand rower
- Dave Lindstromb. 1954USAmerican football player
- Brian Lindstromb. 1961USAmerican filmmaker
- Matt Lindstromb. 1980USAmerican baseball player
- Murda Beatzb. 1994CAnot in their usual nameCanadian record producer (born 1994)
- Chris Lindstromb. 1997USAmerican football player (born 1997)
- Ross Lindstromb. 2000NZNew Zealand rower
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 9.8K | #3,641 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.5K | #3,454 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 9.4K | #3,690 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Lindstrom mean, and where does it come from?
- invented Swedish name literally ‘lime-tree river’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Lindstrom?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɪndstɹəm/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lindstrom have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Lindstrom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lindström.
- Where is Lindstrom most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lindstrom is densest in Åland Islands — about 1 in 185 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lindstrom?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 24,245 people named Lindstrom, about 1 in 421 residents.
- How common is Lindstrom compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Lindstrom is the 24th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Lindstrom?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lindstromThe 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, “Lindstrom” — the 24th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.