The surname Backstrom
A Swedish surname, carried by 2,435 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B236
Origin
Swedish origin
Borrowed from Swedish Backström or Bäckström, from backe (“hill”) or bäck (“stream”) + ström (“stream”).
One of 133 Swedish surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 2,435 people named Backstrom in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 126,795 Americans. That is up 4.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,333.
Who is named Backstrom
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
86% of people named Backstrom identified as white (not Hispanic), 9.0% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 86%
- Black (not Hispanic) 9.0%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.6%
- Two or more races 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Backstrom has the Soundex code B236, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B236.
Other Swedish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Backstrom come from?
- Borrowed from Swedish Backström or Bäckström, from backe (“hill”) or bäck (“stream”) + ström (“stream”).
- How common is the surname Backstrom?
- 2,435 people in the United States had the surname Backstrom in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 126,795 Americans. It ranked 12,683rd of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Backstrom?
- In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Backstrom identified as white (not Hispanic), and 9.0% as Black (not Hispanic).
- Is the surname Backstrom getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,333 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,435 in 2010, up 4.4%.