Losel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A worthless or despicable person, scoundrel
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Losel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 72K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
- CZCzechia1 in 5.4M
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 Losel 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, 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 Loesel in US United States, CA Canada, IE Ireland and 1 more and 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)A worthless or despicable person, scoundrel.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Losel 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 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Lösel | 50 |
| US United States | 288as Loesel | 1 in 1.2M | 293 | Loesel | 118 |
| FR France | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 563K | 15 | — | — |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 611K | — | Loesel | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Loesel | 8 |
| IE Ireland | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 309K | — | Loesel | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Losel mean, and where does it come from?
- A worthless or despicable person, scoundrel. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Losel?
- In the etymology graph, Loss is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Losel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Losel in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lösel.
- How common is the name Losel?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 10 people named Losel in 2024, about 1 in 840 thousand 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/loselThe 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, “Losel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.