Holmgren
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name composed of the elements holm ‘island’ -I- gren ‘branch’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhoʊɫmɡɹɛn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Holmgren is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 1K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 105K
- BJBenin≈1 in 3.6K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 299 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
9,899 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 holm ‘island’ -I- gren ‘branch’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Holmgren 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 | #606 | 9,899 | 1 in 1K | 9.9K | Holmgren | 76 |
| BJ Benin | #795 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Holmgren | 5 |
| US United States | — | 3,160 | 1 in 105K | 3.2K | Holmgren | 299 |
| NO Norway | — | 994 | 1 in 5.5K | 994 | Holmgren | 24 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Holmgren | 80 |
| FI Finland | — | 434 | 1 in 13K | 434 | Holmgren | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 232 | 1 in 25K | 232 | — | — |
9,899 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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)
- August Holmgrenb. 1829SESwedish scientist
- Frithiof Holmgrenb. 1831SESwedish physiologist
- Ann-Margret Holmgrenb. 1850SESwedish writer, editor (1850-1940)
- Israel Holmgrenb. 1871SESwedish scientist and physician (1871–1961)
- Björn Frithiofsson Holmgrenb. 1872SEpolitician and Member of the parliament of Sweden (1872-1946)
- Patricia Kern Holmgrenb. 1940USAmerican botanist, botanical collector, curator, editor and director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium (1940 - )
- Mike Holmgrenb. 1948USAmerican football coach, executive
- Leif Holmgrenb. 1953SESwedish ice hockey player
- Josefine Holmgrenb. 1993SESwedish ice hockey player
- Chet Holmgrenb. 2002USAmerican basketball player (born 2002)
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 27 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Holmgren mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name composed of the elements holm ‘island’ -I- gren ‘branch’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Holmgren?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhoʊɫmɡɹɛn/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Holmgren have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 9.9 thousand people named Holmgren, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled holmgren.
- Where is Holmgren most common?
- Holmgren is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Holmgren?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 9,899 people named Holmgren, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Holmgren compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Holmgren is the 606th 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/holmgrenThe 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, “Holmgren” — the 606th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.