Hedström
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
/hɛ˧˩t̪rœm/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Hedström is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In South Sudan it is the 47th most common surname. Recorded meaning: ornamental name composed of the elements hed ‘heath’, ‘moor’ + strom ‘river’.
- SESweden1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 13K
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 18Kfew records
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)
- Record sources
- 244 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
5,301 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 Hedstrom in US United States, SE Sweden, GB United Kingdom and 4 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)ornamental name composed of the elements hed ‘heath’, ‘moor’ + strom ‘river’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Hedström 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 | — | 5,301 | 1 in 1.9K | 5.3K | Hedstrom | 47 |
| US United States | — | 1,816 | 1 in 183K | 1.8K | Hedstrom | 244 |
| SS South Sudan | #47 | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Hedstrom | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 420 | 1 in 13K | 420 | Hedstrom | 6 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 270K | — | Hedstrom | 27 |
| BB Barbados | #505 | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Hedstrom | 2 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #771 | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Hedstrom | 1 |
5,301 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling hedström. 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)- Oscar Hedströmb. 1871SESwedish-born American motorcycle designer (1871-1960)
- Gösta Hedströmb. 1895SESwedish architect (1895–1966)
- Uno Hedströmb. 1915SEpolitician and Member of the parliament of Sweden (1915–1978)
- Tina Hedströmb. 1942SESwedish actress (1942-1984)
- Lotta Hedströmb. 1955SESwedish politician
- Nina Hukkinenb. 1965FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress
- Jonathan Hedströmb. 1977SEice hockey player
- Tuva Matilda Moa Karolina Hedströmb. 1979SESwedish actress
- Robin Hedströmb. 1989SESwedish-Icelandic ice hockey player
- Hampus Hedströmb. 1996SESwedish YouTube comedian, presenter and podcaster
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5.3K | #181 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 420 | #4,033 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 159 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Hedström mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name composed of the elements hed ‘heath’, ‘moor’ + strom ‘river’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hedström?
- In Swedish /hɛ˧˩t̪rœm/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Hedström have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Hedström, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hedstrom.
- Where is Hedström most common?
- Hedström is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hedström?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 5,301 people named Hedström, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Hedström compared with other names?
- In South Sudan, Hedström is the 47th most common surname of 3,406 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Hedström?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hedstr%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, “Hedström” — the 47th most common surname in South Sudan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.