Bjorkman
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈbjɔɹkmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bjorkman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Swedish Björkman, an ornamental surname composed of the elements björk (“birch”) and man (“man”).
- SESweden1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 263K
- FIFinland1 in 2.3K
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
- 213 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
6,857 people
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 Björkman in SE Sweden, FI Finland, DK Denmark 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)Borrowed from Swedish Björkman, an ornamental surname composed of the elements björk (“birch”) and man (“man”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bjorkman 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 | #139 | 6,857 | 1 in 1.5K | 6.9K | Björkman | 72 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,403 | 1 in 2.3K | 2.4K | Björkman | 14 |
| US United States | — | 1,263 | 1 in 263K | 1.3K | Bjorkman | 213 |
| BJ Benin | #572 | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Björkman | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 254K | — | Bjorkman | 35 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 149K | — | Bjorkman | 42 |
| DK Denmark | — | 42 | 1 in 140K | 42 | Björkman | 13 |
6,857 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)- Frances Maule Bjorkmanb. 1879USAmerican reporter, writer, suffragist
- Ernest H. Bjorkmanb. 1881SEUnited States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
- Joaquín Martínez Bjorkmanb. 1928ESSpanish politician (1928-2000)
- Rube Bjorkmanb. 1929USAmerican ice hockey player
- Pamela J. Bjorkmanb. 1956USAmerican biochemist
- George Bjorkmanb. 1956USAmerican baseball player
- Karen S. BjorkmanUSastronomer; academic
- Stella T. BjorkmanAUresearcher
- Anne D. BjorkmanSEplant ecologist
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,871 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #21,459 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,887 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #60,010 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #71,499 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Bjorkman mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Swedish Björkman, an ornamental surname composed of the elements björk (“birch”) and man (“man”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Bjorkman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbjɔɹkmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bjorkman have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 6.9 thousand people named Bjorkman, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled björkman.
- Where is Bjorkman most common?
- Bjorkman is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bjorkman?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 6,857 people named Bjorkman, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Bjorkman compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Bjorkman is the 139th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bjorkman?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bjorkmanThe 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, “Bjorkman” — the 139th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.