Booström
Booström, also written Boström. Attested in United States of America, borne by about 131 people in the registers this map holds.
Also written
A person linked these — Wikidata's «said to be the same as», or a family archive that worked it out from documents.
Only sounds alike
An algorithm's guess. Useful for casting a net, and not evidence.
BostrømBiströmByströmBeastromBøgestrøm
It is also the name of a place
This is as close to an origin as this map will go. A surname that is also a place name often came from it — and often did not: plenty are occupations or patronymics that happen to collide with a place, and plenty of places are named after a family rather than the other way round. It is a fact with a source, which is more than an etymology page offers.
- Bystrom United States of America pop. 4,008 only a phonetic neighbour, not a spelling
Where it is borne, and where a record names it
Country by country
Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.
United States of America
131 Borne — a state counted them — Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census; Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2000 Census.
- National Archives Catalog (NARA) Images, free, no account Washington, D.C., United States
- Chronicling America Images, free, no account Washington, D.C., United States
- Statue of Liberty–Ellis Island Foundation Images, free, account needed New York, United States
- Findmypast Images, behind a paywall
- Internet Archive Images, free, no account San Francisco, United States
- Arolsen Archives Images, free, no account Bad Arolsen, Germany
26,108 of 528,875 volumes held for United States of America overlap the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s — the decades Booström is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Booström. The commonest kinds: Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Immigration and emigration, Church and parish registers. See everything this atlas holds for United States of America →
Whose archive held that ground, and when
Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.
This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.
- Acadia — the Maritimes 5 eras France → Britain → Canada
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