Löse
given name · Latin script
Löse is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English losen, from Old English losian, from Proto-Germanic *lusōną, *luzōną, from Proto-Germanic *lusą. The modern pronunciation with /uː/ is due to conflation with loose.
- DKDenmark1 in 40K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 67Kfew records
- DEGermany≈1 in 180Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- 1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈960 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lose in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom 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)- Middle Englishlosen(measured from records)
- Old Englishlosian(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*lusōną(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*lusą(measured from records)
From Middle English losen, from Old English losian, from Proto-Germanic *lusōną, *luzōną, from Proto-Germanic *lusą. The modern pronunciation with /uː/ is due to conflation with loose.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Löse is found
(measured from records)Löse 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Lose | 11 |
| US United States | 683 | 1 in 487K | 710 | Lose | 177 |
| DE Germany | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 184K | listed | Lose | 51 |
| DK Denmark | 145 | 1 in 40K | 145 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 506K | — | Lose | 28 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Lose | 19 |
| IE Ireland | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Lose | 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Löse mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English losen, from Old English losian, from Proto-Germanic *lusōną, *luzōną, from Proto-Germanic *lusą. The modern pronunciation with /uː/ is due to conflation with loose. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Löse?
- Mondonomo estimates about 959 people named Löse in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lose. After it come United States, Germany, Denmark and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Löse most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Löse is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 40 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Löse?
- In the United States, the national register counted 683 people named Löse in 2010, about 1 in 487 thousand residents.
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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, “Löse”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.