stockholmsbo

Stockholmsbo is a Swedish noun used to denote a person who lives in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. The word is formed from the place name Stockholm with the suffix -bo, a productive ending in Swedish that means a dweller or resident. In this construction, bo indicates a person whose primary association is with the city.

In practice, stockholmsbo is relatively uncommon in everyday speech. More frequent terms for residents of Stockholm include stockholmare or, in English-language contexts, Stockholmers. Stockholmsbo tends to appear in formal, historical, or demographic writing, such as census data, archives, or descriptive accounts of population characteristics, where the emphasis is on current place of residence rather than origin or nationality.

The term should be differentiated from broader or more modern demonyms referring to people from Stockholm. While stockholmsbo focuses on residency, other terms may emphasize cultural or regional identity. The word is part of a wider pattern in Swedish for creating place-based demonyms with the -bo suffix and is primarily of interest in linguistic, historical, or bureaucratic contexts.