Loss
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) person who lives in marshland; (ii) from the German male personal name Loss, pet form of Ludwig
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɒs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Loss is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 169K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 281K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 25K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 243 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Loess in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) person who lives in marshland; (ii) from the German male personal name Loss, pet form of Ludwig.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Loss 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Loss | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 4,651 | 1 in 46K | 4.7K | — | 4 |
| US United States | 1,182 | 1 in 281K | 1.5K | Loss | 243 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Loess | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 169K | listed | Loss | 64 |
| AT Austria | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Loss | 18 |
| EE Estonia | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 39 | Loss | 8 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Loss | 2 |
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 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the dfa-band-1 register; the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Loss is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
topographic name from los ‘marsh’, or a habitational name from places named with this word, such as Losse and Lossa.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
pet form of the personal name Ludwig.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, to a no longer attached or stuck state (no longer stuck to something, generally); loose, off, untied
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, imperative of losse
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Giuseppe Lossb. 1831ITbotanist (1831-1880)
- Klara Cohnb. 1868PLnot in their usual nameholocaust victim, b. 1868-08-17
- Betty Aschnerb. 1902PLnot in their usual nameHolocaust victim (born 1902)
- Joe Lossb. 1909GBBritish musician (1909-1990)
- Daniel Lossb. 1958CHSwiss physicist
- Jacqueline Lossb. 1971USprofessor of Spanish
- Osmar Loss Vieirab. 1975BRBrazilian association football player
- Martina Lossb. 1975ITItalian politician
- Marlen Lossb. 1987MXMexican artist
- Noah Franz LossEEEstonian child actor
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.7K | #2,370 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,073 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.5K | #18,237 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.2K | #21,960 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 39 | #2,622 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 35 | #2,993 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Loss mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) person who lives in marshland; (ii) from the German male personal name Loss, pet form of Ludwig. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Loss?
- A machine transcription gives /lɒs/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Loss?
- In the etymology graph, Loser is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Loss have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.7 thousand people named Loss in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled loss.
- How common is the name Loss?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 4,651 people named Loss, about 1 in 46 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Loss?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lossThe 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, “Loss”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.