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    The surname Lose

    A German surname, carried by 683 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex L200

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Lose is more common than 79.4% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    * As a north/Low German surname, from a pet form of Lodewig, Ludwig. * As a south German surname, from a pet from of Nikolaus.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 683 people named Lose in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 452,043 Americans. That is down 3.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 710.

    #33,410
    rank among US surnames
    683
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -3.8%
    change since 2000 (was #30,929)

    Who is named Lose

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    96% of people named Lose identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 1.8%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Hispanic, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Lose

    Lose has the Soundex code L200, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L200.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Lose come from?
    * As a north/Low German surname, from a pet form of Lodewig, Ludwig. * As a south German surname, from a pet from of Nikolaus.
    How common is the surname Lose?
    683 people in the United States had the surname Lose in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 452,043 Americans. It ranked 33,410th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Lose?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Lose identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.8% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Lose getting more or less common?
    Less common. 710 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 683 in 2010, down 3.8%.