Bostroms

Bostroms is the anglicized plural form of the Swedish surname Boström. In Sweden the name is written with the diacritic ö as Boström; in English-speaking contexts it is commonly rendered as Bostrom. The form Bostroms would typically refer to a family or multiple individuals bearing the surname.

Origin and meaning: The surname belongs to a class of Swedish topographic or habitational names formed from place-name elements. The second element, strom, means stream or current, while the first element likely derives from a dwelling, farm, or locality. Together the components describe a place associated with a stream.

Distribution: Boström/Bostrom is most common in Sweden and among Swedish diaspora communities in North America and elsewhere. In non-Swedish contexts, the diacritic is often dropped, producing Bostrom or, in possessive or plural usage, Bostroms.

Notable people: Notable individuals with the surname include Nick Bostrom (born 1970), a Swedish philosopher and author who directs the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and has written extensively on existential risk and transhumanism.

See also: Boström (surname); Bostrom (disambiguation).