Bergström
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
/bɛrjs̪t̪rœm/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Bergström is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Antigua & Barbuda it is the 89th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From berg (“mountain”) + ström (“stream”).
- SESweden1 in 494(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 1.8K
- CACanada≈1 in 33K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 382 (measured from records)
- 1 in 494 (inferred from the name graph)
20,667 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 Bergstrom in US United States, SE Sweden, GB United Kingdom and 3 more and Bergstroem in BJ Benin.
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 berg (“mountain”) + ström (“stream”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bergström 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 | #398 | 20,667 | 1 in 494 | 21K | Bergstrom | 86 |
| US United States | — | 8,908 | 1 in 37K | 8.9K | Bergstrom | 382 |
| FI Finland | — | 3,075 | 1 in 1.8K | 3.1K | Bergstrom | 15 |
| BJ Benin | #253 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Bergstroem | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Bergstrom | 65 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Bergstrom | 78 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #89 | — | — | — | Bergstrom | 2 |
20,667 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling bergström. 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)- David Bergströmb. 1858SESwedish politician (1858-1946)
- Kurt Bergströmb. 1891SESailor and physician (1891–1955)
- Emmi Jurkkab. 1899FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress, director and theatre manager
- Sune Bergströmb. 1916SESwedish biochemist (1916–2004)
- Gunilla Bergströmb. 1942SESwedish writer, illustrator and journalist (1942–2021)
- Jonas Bergströmb. 1946SESwedish actor
- Helena Bergströmb. 1964SESwedish actress and driector
- Christian Bergströmb. 1967SESwedish tennis player
- Kajsa Bergströmb. 1981SESwedish female curler
- Lucas Bergströmb. 2002FIFinnish association football goalkeeper
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 21K | #26 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 3.1K | #628 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.2K | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Bergström mean, and where does it come from?
- From berg (“mountain”) + ström (“stream”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Bergström?
- In Swedish /bɛrjs̪t̪rœm/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Bergström have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Bergström, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bergstrom.
- Where is Bergström most common?
- Bergström is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 494 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bergström?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 20,667 people named Bergström, about 1 in 494 residents.
- How common is Bergström compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Bergström is the 398th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bergström?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bergstr%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, “Bergström” — the 398th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.