Lindström

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Lindström 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. Recorded meaning: From lind (“linden”) + ström (“stream”).

rarermore common
  • 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 Lindström 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)

24,245 people

Sources
367 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 185 (inferred from the name graph)

Åland Islands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Lindstrom in US United States, ID Indonesia.

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 lind (“linden”) + ström (“stream”).

Sources 1

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lindström 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.

Where Lindström is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#2424,2451 in 42124KLindström94
FI Finland#13514,2411 in 39114KLindström39
US United States—9,7541 in 34K9.8KLindstrom367
BJ Benin#106≈2,100 est.≈1 in 6.3K—Lindström5
ID Indonesia—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 167K—Lindstrom6
NO Norway—1,368as Lindstrøm1 in 4K1.4KLindström16
AX Åland Islands—1421 in 185142—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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lindström is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Lindstróm, Lindstrôm, Lindstrōm, Lindstrom, Lind-Strom

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Sweden, Finland

    Also written Lindstrom

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Italy, Finland

    Also written Lindstrom

  • a separate surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, United Kingdom, Finland

    Also written Lindstrom

  • Russian surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Finland, United States, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Линдстрем, Lindstrom, Линдстрём, Линдстром, Ліндстром

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Gunnar Lindström, b. 1896Rune Lindström, b. 1916Pia Lindström, b. 1938Marika Lindström, b. 1946Linde Lindström, b. 1976John Martin, b. 1980Joakim Lindström, b. 1983Veli-Matti Lindström, b. 1983Fredrik Lindström, b. 1989Elisa Lindström, b. 1991

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Lindström
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—24K#21
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—14K#95
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—5.4K—
AX Åland IslandsÅSUB — Förnamn och efternamn (50 most common first names by sex & surnames)2025142#22

Reference works 4

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 Lindström mean, and where does it come from?
From lind (“linden”) + ström (“stream”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
What are other forms of the name Lindström?
In the etymology graph, Lind is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Lindström have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Lindström, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lindström.
Where is Lindström most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lindström 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 Lindström?
In Sweden, the national register counted 24,245 people named Lindström, about 1 in 421 residents.
How common is Lindström compared with other names?
In Sweden, Lindström is the 24th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Lindström” — the 24th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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