How common is the surname Sandstrom?

4,352 people in the United States had the surname Sandstrom in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,943 Americans. It ranked 7,627th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Sandstrom?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Sandstrom identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Sandstrom getting more or less common?

More common. 3,615 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,352 in 2010, up 20%.

The surname Sandstrom

A Swedish surname, carried by 4,352 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S532

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sandstrom is more common than 95.3% of them.

Origin

Swedish origin

Borrowed from Swedish Sandström, from sand (“sand”) + 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 4,352 people named Sandstrom in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 70,943 Americans. That is up 20% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,615.

#7,627

rank among US surnames

4,352

people in 2010

1.5

per 100,000 Americans

+20.4%

change since 2000 (was #8,402)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#7,618	Snapp	4,360	70,813
#7,619	Alas	4,358	70,846
#7,620	Bottoms	4,357	70,862
#7,621	Jager	4,356	70,878
#7,623	Melville	4,355	70,894
#7,624	Burkey	4,354	70,911
#7,625	Poteet	4,353	70,927

Who is named Sandstrom

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

94% of people named Sandstrom identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.1% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 2.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sandstrom

Sandstrom has the Soundex code S532, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S532.

Other Swedish surnames

All 133 Swedish surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Sandstrom come from?: Borrowed from Swedish Sandström, from sand (“sand”) + ström (“stream”).
How common is the surname Sandstrom?: 4,352 people in the United States had the surname Sandstrom in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 70,943 Americans. It ranked 7,627th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sandstrom?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Sandstrom identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Sandstrom getting more or less common?: More common. 3,615 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 4,352 in 2010, up 20%.