Sjostrom

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ˈʃoʊstɹəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Sjostrom is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Swedish Sjöström, from sjö (“sea”) + ström (“sea, current”).

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 372K
  • AXÅland Islands1 in 301

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)

7,495 people

Sources
224 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 301 (inferred from the name graph)

Åland Islands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sjöström in SE Sweden, FI Finland, BJ Benin.

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)

Derivation of Sjostrom: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Sjostrom
  1. SwedishSjöström(measured from records)
  2. Swedish rootsjö“sea”(measured from records)

Borrowed from Swedish Sjöström, from sjö (“sea”) + ström (“sea, current”).

Sources 1

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sjostrom 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 Sjostrom is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#1337,4951 in 1.4K7.5KSjöström63
FI Finland—1,3771 in 4K1.4KSjöström13
US United States—8931 in 372K903Sjostrom224
BJ Benin#523≈880 est.≈1 in 15K—Sjöström3
DZ Algeria—≈590 est.≈1 in 73K—Sjostrom1
AX Åland Islands—871 in 30187—1

7,495 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 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)

Sjostrom is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Sjöström, Sjŏstrŏm, Sjöstrom, Sjoström

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Sweden, United States, Canada

    Also written Sjöström

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Sweden

    Also written Sjöström

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Italy

    Also written Sjöström

  • Greek surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Sjöström

  • Russian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Sweden, Finland, United States

    Also written Шёстрём, Шестрем, Sjöström

29 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)

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)

FormalDear Sjostrom,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Sjostrom
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020903#28,136
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010893#27,110
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000869#26,419
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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 Sjostrom mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Swedish Sjöström, from sjö (“sea”) + ström (“sea, current”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Sjostrom?
A machine transcription gives /ˈʃoʊstɹəm/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Sjostrom have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 7.5 thousand people named Sjostrom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sjöström.
Where is Sjostrom most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sjostrom is densest in Åland Islands — about 1 in 301 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sjostrom?
In Sweden, the national register counted 7,495 people named Sjostrom, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
How common is Sjostrom compared with other names?
In Sweden, Sjostrom is the 133rd 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, “Sjostrom” — the 133rd most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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