Nyström
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
/n̪ʏs̪t̪rœm/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 321 (measured from records)
- 1 in 787 (inferred from the name graph)
12,964 people
recorded for this name
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 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 in the world
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #49 | 12,964 | 1 in 787 | 13K | Nyström | 81 |
| US United States | — | 9,142as Strom | 1 in 36K | 9.2K | Nystrom | 321 |
| FI Finland | #596 | 4,972 | 1 in 1.1K | 5K | Nyström | 21 |
| BJ Benin | #319 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Nyström | 3 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Nystrom | 78 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #532 | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Nystrom | 1 |
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Per Axel Nyströmb. 1793SESwedish translator and architect (1793–1868)
- Jenny Nyströmb. 1854SESwedish artist (1854–1946)
- Gustaf Nyströmb. 1856FIFinnish architect
- Into Konrad Inhab. 1865FInot in their usual nameFinnish photographer, author, translator and journalist (1865-1930)
- Gösta Nystroemb. 1890SEnot in their usual nameSwedish composer (1890-1966)
- Per Nyströmb. 1903SESwedish historian (1903-1993)
- Stig Nyströmb. 1919SESwedish association football player (1919–1983)
- Bertil Nyströmb. 1935SEOlympic wrestler
- Ann-Christine Nyströmb. 1944FIFinnish singer and bank teller (1944–2022)
- Joakim Nyströmb. 1963SESwedish tennis player
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)13 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) | — | 13K | #52 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 5K | #372 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.8K | — |
Reference works 4
- 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 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.
- In which country does Nyström have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Nyström?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nystr%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, “Nyström” — the 49th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.