The surname Bostrom
A Swedish surname, carried by 2,129 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex B236
Origin
Swedish origin
Borrowed from Swedish Boström, from bo (“home, dwelling”) + ström (“stream, current”).
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 2,129 people named Bostrom in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 145,019 Americans. That is up 3.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,060.
Who is named Bostrom
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Bostrom identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.9% as two or more races and 1.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Two or more races 1.9%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 1.2%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Bostrom 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 Bostrom come from?
- Borrowed from Swedish Boström, from bo (“home, dwelling”) + ström (“stream, current”).
- How common is the surname Bostrom?
- 2,129 people in the United States had the surname Bostrom in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 145,019 Americans. It ranked 14,113th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Bostrom?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Bostrom identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.9% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Bostrom getting more or less common?
- More common. 2,060 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,129 in 2010, up 3.3%.