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The surname Blomgren

A Swedish surname, carried by 1,259 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B452

Blomgren: #20,926 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Blomgren #20,926, 1,259 people Blomgren: #20,926 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Blomgren #20,926, 1,259 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Blomgren is more common than 87.1% of them.

Origin

Swedish origin

From Swedish blomma (“flower”) + gren (“branch”).

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 1,259 people named Blomgren in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 245,231 Americans. That is up 4.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,205.

#20,926
rank among US surnames
1,259
people in 2010
0.4
per 100,000 Americans
+4.5%
change since 2000 (was #20,468)

Who is named Blomgren

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

93% of people named Blomgren identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.5% as two or more races.

  • White (not Hispanic) 93%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
  • Two or more races 2.5%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Blomgren

Blomgren has the Soundex code B452, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B452.

Other Swedish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Blomgren come from?
From Swedish blomma (“flower”) + gren (“branch”).
How common is the surname Blomgren?
1,259 people in the United States had the surname Blomgren in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 245,231 Americans. It ranked 20,926th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Blomgren?
In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Blomgren identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Blomgren getting more or less common?
More common. 1,205 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,259 in 2010, up 4.5%.