The los Surname

los Name Meaning and History

Polish (Los): nickname for a large, ungainly person, from Polish los ‘elk’.
Dutch: nickname from Middle Dutch losch ‘squinting’; ‘cross-eyed’; ‘one-eyed’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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los Family Facts

Distribution of los Families in the US in 1920

Number of los families

7-12

3-6

1-2

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 6 - Messages: 18

Thread	Author	Replies
Jozef Los	lyndsylew	0
Alexander LOS b. Poland abt 1876 d. USA 1962	duchess17	11
Thoams Los - Manilla to New Orleans in the 1860s	Colleen Fitzpatrick	0
Los, possibly Theodore	Mona E. Roy	0
Los/Lose/Loos	krystin	0
Mary Los	jo_otoole	1

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