Norstrom
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name composed of the elements norr, nord ‘north’ -H strdm ‘river’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Norstrom is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 959K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 5.9K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 100K
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)
- Sources
- 139 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,717 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ornamental name composed of the elements norr, nord ‘north’ -H strdm ‘river’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Norstrom 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 | 1,717 | 1 in 5.9K | 1.7K | Norstrom | 22 |
| US United States | 347 | 1 in 959K | 347 | Norstrom | 139 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Norstrom | 1 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Norstrom | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 693K | 24 | Norstrom | 35 |
| RS Serbia | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Norstrom | 1 |
| FI Finland | 43 | 1 in 130K | 43 | — | 1 |
1,717 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling norström. 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); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 347 | #58,481 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 338 | #56,526 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 302 | #69,958 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 24 | #80,577 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Norstrom mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name composed of the elements norr, nord ‘north’ -H strdm ‘river’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Norstrom have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Norstrom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled norstrom.
- Where is Norstrom most common?
- Norstrom is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Norstrom?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 1,717 people named Norstrom, about 1 in 5.9 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/norstromThe 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, “Norstrom”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.