Strom Family History
Strom Name Meaning
Swedish (Ström) and Danish (Strøm): from ström strøm ‘current’ a topographic name for someone who lived by a river or a stream or an ornamental name. Compare Stream 2 Strome and Strum . Norwegian (Strøm): habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads so named from Old Norse straumr ‘current stream’. Compare 1 above. German: variant of Strahm and Strohm . Polish: topographic name for someone who lived on a steep slope from strom ‘slope’ or stromy ‘precipitous’. Czech: topographic name or nickname from strom ‘tree’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic or ornamental name from German Strom ‘stream river’.7: American shortened and altered form of Dutch Van der Stroom: topographic name from Middle Dutch stroom ‘stream river’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022