How common is the surname Blom?

3,103 people in the United States had the surname Blom in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 99,499 Americans. It ranked 10,382nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Blom?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Blom identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Blom getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,106 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,103 in 2010, down 0.1%.

The surname Blom

A Dutch surname, carried by 3,103 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B450

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blom is more common than 93.6% of them.

Origin

Dutch origin

Borrowed from Dutch and Swedish Blom, an ornamental surname from either bloem (“flower”) or blomma (“flower”).

One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,103 people named Blom in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 99,499 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 3,106.

#10,382

rank among US surnames

3,103

people in 2010

1.1

per 100,000 Americans

-0.1%

change since 2000 (was #9,603)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,373	McLamb	3,106	99,403
#10,377	Fromm	3,105	99,435
#10,380	Hosier	3,104	99,467
#10,382	Donohoe	3,103	99,499
#10,387	Tyus	3,102	99,531
#10,391	Carnevale	3,101	99,563

Who is named Blom

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Blom identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Blom

Blom has the Soundex code B450, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B450.

Other Dutch surnames

All 167 Dutch surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Blom come from?: Borrowed from Dutch and Swedish Blom, an ornamental surname from either bloem (“flower”) or blomma (“flower”).
How common is the surname Blom?: 3,103 people in the United States had the surname Blom in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 99,499 Americans. It ranked 10,382nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Blom?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Blom identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Blom getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,106 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,103 in 2010, down 0.1%.