Löser
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Translated in German from the Hebraic word = inheritance administrator, common in 1700 and 1800
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/løzɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Löser is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 29K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 353Kas Loeser
- CHSwitzerland1 in 14K
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 Löser 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
- 220 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Loser in CH Switzerland, LB Lebanon, DZ Algeria and Loeser in US United States, BZ Belize.
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)Translated in German from the Hebraic word = inheritance administrator, common in 1700 and 1800.
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Löser 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 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Löser | 81 |
| US United States | 941as Loeser | 1 in 353K | 941 | Loeser | 220 |
| CH Switzerland | 602 | 1 in 14K | 602 | Loser | 43 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Loser | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 293as Loeser | 1 in 723K | 293 | — | 2 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Loser | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 40 | 1 in 85K | 40 | — | — |
| BZ Belize | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Loeser | 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Löser is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from place name Lösau; or from Lazarus / lassen
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Swedish, present indicative of lösa
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Franz Löserb. 1889ATAustrian stage actor and writer (1889-1953)
- Hans-Joachim Löserb. 1918DEGerman general and Knight's Cross recipients (1918–2001)
- Johann Löserb. 1937ATAustrian footballer
- Wolf-Dieter Löserb. 1949DEGerman military personnel
- Brother Aloisb. 1954DEnot in their usual nameChristian religious leader
- Katharina Löserb. 1981DEGerman architect
- Elisabeth Güntherb. 1988DEnot in their usual nameGerman classical archaeologist and numismatist
- Manig Löserb. 1988DEGerman poker player
- Sara Löserb. 1995DEGerman association football player
- Timo Löserb. 1999DEGerman handball player
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 30 | #27,377 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Löser mean, and where does it come from?
- Translated in German from the Hebraic word = inheritance administrator, common in 1700 and 1800. Recorded by The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History.
- How do you pronounce Löser?
- A machine transcription gives /løzɐ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Löser have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Löser in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled löser.
- Where is Löser most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Löser is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 14 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Löser?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 602 people named Löser in 2024, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Löser?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%B6serThe 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, “Löser”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.