Lost
loc · Latin script
Meaning: simple past and past participle of lose
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Lost is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3Mas Loest(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 351K
- PLPoland1 in 1.5M
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 Lost 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
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
≈540 named Loest, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, 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 Loest in DE Germany, ZA South Africa, BR Brazil and 3 more.
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)simple past and past participle of lose
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)Lost 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 | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 150K | — | Loest | 60 |
| US United States | 146as Loest | 1 in 2.3M | 154 | Lost | 86 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 781K | — | Loest | 6 |
| CA Canada | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Lost | 14 |
| BR Brazil | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 7.5M | — | Loest | 9 |
| PL Poland | 25 | 1 in 1.5M | 13 | Loest | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 16as Loest | 1 in 733K | 16 | Loest | 6 |
| HN Honduras | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 927K | — | Loest | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 351K | listed | — | 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Lost 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.
In kr, one is frightened. % kdrge ke'tn, lit. the heart is sweet, pleasant, i.e. one is glad, pleased. kdrge kdmbe bibingin, I grieve, offend a person; kdrge
as a wordKanuri-English Vocabulary (in African Native Literature)
In ibb, Asop pl Asoeime) see sob6 become enough, suffi
as a wordIbibio Dictionary. Final Report
In Dutch, inflection of lossen:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, inflection of losen:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, A tail.
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #115,855 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 12 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #122,106 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #126,760 |
Reference works 1
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 Lost mean, and where does it come from?
- simple past and past participle of lose Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Lost have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 535 people named Loest in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lost?
- In Poland, the national register counted 25 people named Lost in 2026, about 1 in 1.5 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/lostThe 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, “Lost”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.