Lohse
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Lose/Lohse; demonstrates long-vowel marking and vowel alternation (o/oh/oo/ö/u)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫoʊs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lohse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 9.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 158K
- DKDenmark1 in 8.9K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 251 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,400 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Lose/Lohse; demonstrates long-vowel marking and vowel alternation (o/oh/oo/ö/u).
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lohse 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #806 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | listed | Lohse | 159 |
| US United States | — | 2,109 | 1 in 158K | 2.1K | Lohse | 251 |
| DK Denmark | #855 | 662 | 1 in 8.9K | 662 | Lohse | 77 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Lohse | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 245K | — | Lohse | 3 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Lohse | 31 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 73 | 1 in 115K | 73 | Lohse | 16 |
| NO Norway | — | 58 | 1 in 94K | 58 | Lohse | 10 |
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; the dfa-band-1 register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Lohse 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.
In German, 1) from LUT; 2) from Nicolaus; 3) from the place name Lohsa
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
habitational name from any of several places called Loose, or from places called Loosen or Lohsa (see Loos).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
short form of the personal name Nikolaus, the German form of Nicholas.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Zu mhd./mnd. lôs 'frei, ledig; mutwillig, fröhlich; leichtfertig, betrügerisch, frech'. 4169 bearers; plate shows oh-vowel spellings.
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)
- Oswald Lohseb. 1845DEGerman astronomer (1845-1915)
- Hinrich Lohseb. 1896DENazi politician/war criminal (1896-1964)
- Elfriede Lohse-Wächtlerb. 1899DEGerman artist (1899-1940)
- Richard Paul Lohseb. 1902CHSwiss artist (1902–1988)
- Bruno Lohseb. 1911DEGerman Nazi art dealer, chief art looter in Paris for Hermann Göring, ERR
- Eva Lohseb. 1956DEGerman politician
- Detlef Lohseb. 1963DEGerman academic
- René Lohseb. 1973DEGerman ice dancer
- Kyle Lohseb. 1978USAmerican baseball player
- Marleen Lohseb. 1984DEGerman actress
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 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,223 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,963 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 662 | #630 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 73 | #14,061 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 58 | #23,690 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Lohse mean, and where does it come from?
- Lose/Lohse; demonstrates long-vowel marking and vowel alternation (o/oh/oo/ö/u). Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
- How do you pronounce Lohse?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫoʊs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lohse have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.4 thousand people named Lohse in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lohse.
- Where is Lohse most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lohse is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 8.9 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lohse?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,109 people named Lohse in 2010, about 1 in 158 thousand residents.
- How common is Lohse compared with other names?
- In Germany, Lohse is the 806th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lohseThe 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, “Lohse” — the 806th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.