Origins of the name of Enstrom

[Rosalie Enstrom]

Would it be possible for some help in finding the origins of the Enstrom name.   I believe it may be a military name but how would this originate.   Any help would be much appreciated.
Rose

[Åke Holmberg]

Hi Rosalie
Enstom or in swedish Enström is't only a soldier name. http://soldat.dis.se/soldater.php Here can you find 74 names of soldier Enstöm. The name Enström contents from two words en-ström. en=one, ström=rapid water.
Cheers

[Bo Johansson]

Or juniper stream (en = juniper), and most Enström are not of military origin, but people who started to use the name because the liked it.
 
// Bo Johansson

[Ingela Martenius]

Enström is rather typical of the so-called town names, i.e. used by people like craftsmen, merchants and civil servants (officials) who lived in towns and cities. The common practice for this class of people was to assume a name consisting of two parts which referred to something in nature, very often starting off with a tree.
En-ström is most certainly juniper + stream. Names like it abound in Swedish: Lind-gren (linden branch), Ek-berg (oak mountain), Alm-qvist (elm twig), Ask-lund (ash copse) - and I'm sure a hundred more variations on the theme.
 
Some regiments gave this sort of town name to its soldiers while others stuck to more typical martial names like Spjut (javelin) or Lans (lance) or even Krig (War)! But soldiers' names were not supposed to be retained by a soldier after he was discharged, and it was very rare before the mid to late 19th century for a soldier's family to use his soldier name. The soldier name can be viewed more along the lines of a badge of office.
 
So while is is entirely possible that your Enström ancestor was a soldier and that was how the name was acquired, it is much more likely that the origin of the name lies with some craftsman (shoemaker, cabinetmaker etc) or tradesman/merchant.
 
Ingela

[Eva Dahlberg]

And in Norrbotten the name Enström exists from early 1800s in a farming family.
 
In Norrbotten it's quite common among the farming population to take names like the examples Ingela call town names already in early 1800s.
 
regards,
Eva

[Rosalie Enstrom]

To Ake, Bo, Ingela and Eva many many thanks for your information.   I really appreciate it.
Sincerely,
Rose