Nyström

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries

/n̪ʏs̪t̪rœm/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated

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Nyström is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From ny (“new”) + ström (“stream”).

  • SESweden1 in 787(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 1.1K
  • AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 14Kfew records

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 Nyström 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)

12,964 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
321 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 787 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
NyströmLatin(measured from records)
สตรอมThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nystrom in US United States, CA Canada, AG Antigua & Barbuda.

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 ny (“new”) + ström (“stream”).

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Nyström is found

(measured from records)

Nyström 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 Nyström is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#4912,9641 in 78713KNyström81
US United States—9,142as Strom1 in 36K9.2KNystrom321
FI Finland#5964,9721 in 1.1K5KNyström21
BJ Benin#319≈1,100 est.≈1 in 13K—Nyström3
CA Canada—≈740 est.≈1 in 56K—Nystrom78
AG Antigua & Barbuda#532≈7 est.≈1 in 14K—Nystrom1

12,964 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Nyström is also recorded as 4 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 Nystrom, Nystrõm, Nyströ̈m, Nystróm, Nystrôm

  • Russian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Sweden, Finland

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Нюстрем, Nystrom, Нюстрём, Нистрем, Нистрём

  • Korean surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea, Sweden

    Also written Nystrom

  • a separate surname2 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Nystrom

30 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)
1850190019502000Jenny Nyström, b. 1854Gösta Nystroem, b. 1890Joakim Nyström, b. 1963

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)
FormalHej ,Dear Nyström, (English)
InformalHej ,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Nyström mean, and where does it come from?
From ny (“new”) + ström (“stream”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Nyström?
It depends on the language: in Swedish /n̪ʏs̪t̪rœm/; in Finnish /nys̠t̪rø̞m/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Nyström?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Nyström, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nyström. After it come United States, Finland, Benin and Canada; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Nyström most common?
Nyström is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 787 people carrying it.
How common is the name Nyström?
In Sweden, the national register counted 12,964 people named Nyström, about 1 in 787 residents.
How common is Nyström compared with other names?
In Sweden, Nyström is the 49th 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, “Nyström” — the 49th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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