Loesel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the personal name Nikolaus, German form of Nicolas
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ləɛsəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Loesel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 89Kas Lösel
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 113K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Loesel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 113K (inferred from the name graph)
≈900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lösel in DE Germany.
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)
from a pet form of the personal name Nikolaus, German form of Nicolas.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Loesel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Loesel | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈900 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Lösel | 50 |
| US United States | 288 | 1 in 1.2M | 293 | Loesel | 118 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 197K | — | Loesel | 1 |
| FR France | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 620K | 15 | — | — |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 608K | — | Loesel | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 333K | — | Loesel | 1 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Johann Loeselb. 1395knight of the Order of Saint John (c. 1390–1460)
- Johannes Loeselb. 1607DEGerman botanist (1607-1655)
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 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 293 | #63,632 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 288 | #68,345 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 280 | #74,428 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 25 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 23 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 18 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 8 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Loesel mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the personal name Nikolaus, German form of Nicolas. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Loesel?
- A machine transcription gives /ləɛsəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Loesel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 903 people named Loesel in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled loesel.
- How common is the name Loesel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 288 people named Loesel in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/loeselThe 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, “Loesel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.