Ström
surname · Latin script
Meaning: having strong currents (of a watercourse), "currenty"
/str9m/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ström is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common surname.
- SESweden1 in 994(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 36K
- FIFinland1 in 1.9K
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
- 374 (measured from records)
- 1 in 994 (inferred from the name graph)
10,266 people
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 Strom in US United States, IE Ireland, EG Egypt and 1 more.
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)
having strong currents (of a watercourse), "currenty"
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ström 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 | #86 | 10,266 | 1 in 994 | 10K | Ström | 76 |
| US United States | — | 9,142 | 1 in 36K | 9.2K | Strom | 374 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,974 | 1 in 1.9K | 3K | Ström | 18 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Strom | 8 |
| BJ Benin | #438 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Ström | 4 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Strom | 16 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 1 | Strom | 6 |
10,266 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); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ström is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, singular imperative of strömen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hans Strømb. 1726NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian priest, naturalist (1726-1797)
- Fredrik Strömb. 1880SESwedish politician (1880-1948)
- Einar Strømb. 1885NOnot in their usual namegymnast (1885–1964)
- Carl Strömb. 1888SEactor (1888–1957)
- Harald Strømb. 1897NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian footballer and speed skater (1897-1977)
- Birgit Strømb. 1931NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian actress, puppeteer, dramatic adviser, singer and non-fiction writer (1931-2007)
- Eva Strömb. 1947SESwedish writer
- Anne-Karine Strømb. 1951NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian singer
- Tarjei Strømb. 1978NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian musician
- Anna Odine Strømb. 1998NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian ski jumper
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)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10K | #71 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 3K | #662 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.1K | — |
| IS Iceland | Ættarnöfn á Íslandi — register of Icelandic hereditary family names | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Ström mean, and where does it come from?
- having strong currents (of a watercourse), "currenty" Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ström?
- A machine transcription gives /str9m/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- In which country does Ström have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Ström, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ström.
- Where is Ström most common?
- Ström is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 994 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ström?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 10,266 people named Ström, about 1 in 994 residents.
- How common is Ström compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Ström is the 86th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/str%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, “Ström” — the 86th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.