Bloom

surname · Latin script

Meaning: An anglicization of Blum, or from Middle English blome ‘iron ingot’ meaning ‘iron worker’

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

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

Bloom is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 13K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 14K
  • CACanada≈1 in 14K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈67,000 people, est.

Sources
471 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Iceland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

An anglicization of Blum, or from Middle English blome ‘iron ingot’ meaning ‘iron worker’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Bloom, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bloom 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 Bloom is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈67,000 est.≈1 in 21K—Bloom9
US United States—24,0811 in 14K24KBloom471
GB United Kingdom—≈5,100 est.≈1 in 13K5Bloom197
DZ Algeria#471≈3,700 est.≈1 in 12K—Bloom7
EG Egypt—≈2,900 est.≈1 in 36K—Bloom15
CA Canada—≈2,700 est.≈1 in 14K1Bloom154
IS Iceland—≈33 est.≈1 in 11K—Bloom2

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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. 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)

Bloom is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Colombia, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Blóóm

  • Greek surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Μπλουμ, Mploum, Μπλούμ

52 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Bloom is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, metonymic for BLOOMER; first attested Anselm, Walter Blome 1177, 1198 P (Sussex, London)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, Anselm, Walter Blome 1177, 1198 P (Sx, Lo). Metonymic for BLOOMER.

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In English, A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, Zu Blume; Typ zeigt engl./niederl. oo-Schreibung der Stammschrift. Bearer count: 83.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

  • In nds (Germany), flower, blossom

    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)

190019502000Benjamin S. Bloom, b. 1913Harold Bloom, b. 1930Allan Bloom, b. 1930Claire Bloom, b. 1931John Bloom, b. 1935Brian Bloom, b. 1970Matt Bloom, b. 1972Orlando Bloom, b. 1977Rachel Bloom, b. 1987Brooke Bloom, b. 2000

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 Bloom,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 37 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Bloom
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201024K#1,483
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200024K#1,362
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202023K#1,500
GB United KingdomA Dictionary of English Surnames (Reaney & Wilson, 1991)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Bloom mean, and where does it come from?
An anglicization of Blum, or from Middle English blome ‘iron ingot’ meaning ‘iron worker’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Bloom?
A machine transcription gives /bluːm/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Bloom have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 67 thousand people named Bloom in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bloom.
How common is the name Bloom?
In the United States, the national register counted 24,081 people named Bloom in 2010, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
How common is Bloom compared with other names?
In Algeria, Bloom is the 471st most common surname of 89,473 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, “Bloom” — the 471st most common surname in Algeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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