Blom

At the 2020 census, 3,131 Americans bore the surname Blom — 9,857th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 95,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,131
Rank: 9,857th
How common: 1 in 95,500
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Blom described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Blom

Rens Blom (born 1977)Dutch pole vaulter
August Blom (1869–1947)Danish filmmaker
Gijs Blom (born 1997)Dutch actor
Ida Blom (1931–2016)Norwegian historian
Frans Blom (1893–1963)Danish Mesoamericanist
Gertrude Blom (1901–1993)Swiss Mesoamericanists
Viktor Blom (born 1990)Swedish poker player

People named Blom with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Blom

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.