Los

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Luque in AR Argentina, ES Spain, PE Peru and 3 more, Roth in DE Germany, AT Austria, CH Switzerland and 2 more, Luke in AU Australia, GB United Kingdom, IE Ireland and 1 more and Luka in GE Georgia, HR Croatia, SI Slovenia and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Los is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian surname15K records spelled Los34 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek

  Also written Лось, Мус, Лос, Хирви, Los'

• French surname8.9K records spelled Los2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Senegal

  Also written L'Os

• a separate name7.0K records spelled Los6 spellings in the group

  Also written Los', Lós, Lös, Loś, Lōs

• Malay name5.0K records spelled Los3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei

  Languages: Malay, Indonesian

  Also written Loş

• Polish surname4.1K records spelled Los6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Spain

  Also written Loś, Loş, Loš, Lòs, Lós

81 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Los 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.

• nickname for a large, ungainly person, from Polish tos ‘elk’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• In Polish, Dims.: O’Lucherin, O’Loghrane, O’Loughran, Pol. los elk. Loughren, Laugheran, (Gael. 6 Luchaireain). Var.: Losiak. Lochrane, Lough(e)ran, Loughrane, (O’)Loran Loukes see Lucas Los see Lewis

  as a name·The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

• In Spanish, masculine plural of el (“the”)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, A medium-sized wildcat, most of them part of the genus Lynx.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In German, Längenanzeige in Los/Lose/Loß/Lo(e)se; die Karte zeigt die Varianten des langen o in diesem Familiennamen.

  as a name·Deutscher 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.

Over time●

MX CDMX — Nombres registrados en Registro Civil (2000–present) — 23 years between 2000–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Leonid Losb. 1928UAUkrainian architect
• Marinus Losb. 1933NLAmerican agrochemical researcher
• Sergio Losb. 1934ITItalian architect (1934–2024)
• Dmitry Losb. 1964RUresearcher
• Bart Losb. 1967NLeconomist (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
• Dmytro Losb. 1976UAUkrainian military personnel
• Linda Losb. 1987NLDutch association football player
• Bram Losb. 2000NLDutch rower
• Serhii LosUAUkrainian military personnel

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 91 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Los?

We estimate roughly 2.6 million people bear Los (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.

In which country does Los have the most bearers?

We estimate about 1.3 million people bear Los in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled luca.

Where is Los most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Los is densest in the Czechia — about 1 in 52 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.

How common is Los compared with other names?

In Slovenia, Los is the 10th most common given name of 11,759 given names recorded there.

What does the name Los mean?

Recorded meaning: nickname from Middle Dutch losch ‘squinting’; ‘cross-eyed’; ‘one-eyed’.