The surname Bjorklund
A Swedish surname, carried by 2,537 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B262
Origin
Swedish origin
Borrowed from Swedish Björklund, from björk (“birch tree”) + lund (“grove”).
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 2,537 people named Bjorklund in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 121,697 Americans. That is up 1.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,491.
Who is named Bjorklund
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Bjorklund identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Two or more races 1.5%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 0.9%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Bjorklund has the Soundex code B262, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B262.
Other Swedish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Bjorklund come from?
- Borrowed from Swedish Björklund, from björk (“birch tree”) + lund (“grove”).
- How common is the surname Bjorklund?
- 2,537 people in the United States had the surname Bjorklund in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 121,697 Americans. It ranked 12,261st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Bjorklund?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Bjorklund identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Bjorklund getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,491 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,537 in 2010, up 1.8%.