Łoś
surname · Latin script
Meaning: moose, Eurasian elk (Alces alces)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/wɔɕ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Łoś is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 7.8K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 18M
- FRFrance≈1 in 31M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 46 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
4,910 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)moose, Eurasian elk (Alces alces)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Łoś counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 4,910 | 1 in 7.8K | 2.5K | Łoś | 46 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 18M | — | Łoś | 3 |
| FR France | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 31M | — | Łoś | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | — | Łoś | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | — | listed | — | — |
4,910 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Włodzimierz Łośb. 1849PLPolish painter (1849-1888)
- Maria Hagen-Schwerinb. 1859PLnot in their usual namePolish writer
- Jan Łośb. 1860PLPolish Slavonic scholar (1860–1928)
- Zofia Łośb. 1900PLPolish journalist (1900-1962)
- Jerzy Łośb. 1920PLPolish mathematician (1920-1998)
- Maria Wycech-Łośb. 1929Polish mathematician and economist
- Andrzej Łośb. 1954PLPolish politician and deputy
- Anna Łośb. 1958PLPolish photographer
- Mariusz Łośb. 1982PLPolish sportsperson
- Urszula Łośb. 1994PLPolish cyclist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.5K | #1,025 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.5K | #1,040 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Łoś mean, and where does it come from?
- moose, Eurasian elk (Alces alces) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Łoś?
- A machine transcription gives /wɔɕ/ (IPA) for Polish.
- In which country does Łoś have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Łoś, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled łoś.
- Where is Łoś most common?
- Łoś is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Łoś?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,910 people named Łoś in 2026, about 1 in 7.8 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%82o%C5%9BThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Łoś”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.