Los
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A medium-sized wildcat, most of them part of the genus Lynx
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɑs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Los is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- CACanada
- GBUnited Kingdom
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 313 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname from Middle Dutch losch ‘squinting’; ‘cross-eyed’; ‘one-eyed’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Los is read(measured from records)
Los is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English59%
A medium-sized wildcat, most of them part of the genus Lynx.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish5.5%
masculine plural of el (“the”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Los counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 952 | Los | 313 |
| CA Canada | — | — | Los | 82 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | listed | Los | 81 |
| RU Russia | — | — | Los | 20 |
| ES Spain | — | 89 | Los | 57 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3.2K | Los | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1.9K | Los | 54 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Los is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
nickname from Middle Dutch losch ‘squinting’; ‘cross-eyed’; ‘one-eyed’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
nickname for a large, ungainly person, from Polish tos ‘elk’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Polish, Dims.: O’Lucherin, O’Loghrane, O’Loughran, Pol. los elk. Loughren, Laugheran, (Gael. 6 Luchaireain). Var.: Losiak. Lochrane, Lough(e)ran, Loughrane, (O’)Loran Loukes see Lucas Los see Lewis
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In German, Längenanzeige in Los/Lose/Loß/Lo(e)se; die Karte zeigt die Varianten des langen o in diesem Familiennamen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Leonid Losb. 1928UAUkrainian architect
- Marinus Losb. 1933NLAmerican agrochemical researcher
- Sergio Losb. 1934ITItalian architect (1934–2024)
- Dmitry Losb. 1964RUresearcher
- Bart Losb. 1967NLeconomist (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
- Dmytro Losb. 1976UAUkrainian military personnel
- Linda Losb. 1987NLDutch association football player
- Bram Losb. 2000NLDutch rower
- Serhii LosUAUkrainian military personnel
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)
Attested in 42 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 29 | #40,945 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 28 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 23 | #55,793 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 22 | #99,072 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 20 | #14,754 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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
- Where does the name Los come from?
- nickname from Middle Dutch losch ‘squinting’; ‘cross-eyed’; ‘one-eyed’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Los?
- A machine transcription gives /lɑs/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Los mean?
- In English, A medium-sized wildcat, most of them part of the genus Lynx.
- In which country does Los have the most bearers?
- Los is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled los.
What do you want to know about Los?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/losThe 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, “Los”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.