Stockholm Family History

Americanized form of Danish Stokholm: habitational name from a place or farm so named, a compound of stok ‘beam log’ and holm ‘islet’, denoting an islet with trees or referring to the oblong size of an islet.

Americanized form of Norwegian Stokholm: habitational name from a farm named after Stockholm in Sweden and also from an altered form of the farm name Skotholmen in Hordaland.

This name Skotholmen is derived from skot (related to skyta ‘shoot’), denoting a land formation that juts out, combined with holme ‘islet’.

The use of the term holm in both language origins signifies a connection to geographical features, particularly small islets.

These names reflect the cultural and geographical influences woven into the identities of American communities with Scandinavian heritage.