Surname LOS

People with the surname LOS in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 393 men and 393 women.

6 verified statements

male

393people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 53,938

female

393people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 54,861

Each 1-in-X is computed within its own dataset. The datasets are different sizes, so these two figures are not compared with each other.

How many people have this surname?

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How many people have this surname?

The PESEL register publishes two separate surname lists, male and female. We show each figure on its own and never add them up.

male

393 people were registered with the surname LOS (male) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

female

393 people were registered with the surname LOS (female) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.

How rare is this surname?

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How rare is this surname?

“1 in X” means that roughly one in every X people on this list has this surname. The bigger X, the rarer the name. The rank counts from the most common surname on the list.

male

about 1 in 53,938

#8,271 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 53,938 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname LOS on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

LOS (male) ranked 8,271 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #8,245TYCZKA394
  2. #8,245ZDUŃSKI394
  3. #8,271LOS this surname393
  4. #8,292BLOCK392
  5. #8,292CHABEREK392

female

about 1 in 54,861

#8,449 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 54,861 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname LOS on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

LOS (female) ranked 8,449 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #8,419STUCZYŃSKA394
  2. #8,419WYKOWSKA394
  3. #8,449LOS this surname393
  4. #8,470PERCZAK392
  5. #8,470WOŁOSZYK392

Two places above and two below on the same list. Surnames with the same count share a place.

Where is it most often registered?

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Where is it most often registered?

The map and the list show the voivodeships where people with this surname have a registered permanent address. The brighter the colour and the longer the bar, the bigger the share.

male

Only 23.9% of bearers had a registered voivodeship, so this is not the surname's distribution.

Among the 94 people with the surname LOS (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 29.8% were registered in OPOLSKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 16.0% (15)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 8.5% (8)LUBELSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBUSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroŁÓDZKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroMAŁOPOLSKIE: 2.1% (2)MAZOWIECKIE: 4.3% (4)OPOLSKIE: 29.8% (28)PODKARPACKIE: 2.1% (2)PODLASKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPOMORSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroŚLĄSKIE: 23.4% (22)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWIELKOPOLSKIE: 9.6% (9)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 4.3% (4)

Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.

Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
  • 0%–10%
  • 10%–20%
  • 20%–30%
  • 30%–40%
  • 40%–50%
  • not listed in the dataset — not zero
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
OPOLSKIE29.8%28
ŚLĄSKIE23.4%22
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE16.0%15
WIELKOPOLSKIE9.6%9
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE8.5%8
MAZOWIECKIE4.3%4
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE4.3%4
MAŁOPOLSKIE2.1%2
PODKARPACKIE2.1%2

female

Only 24.7% of bearers had a registered voivodeship, so this is not the surname's distribution.

Among the 97 people with the surname LOS (female) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 28.9% were registered in OPOLSKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 18.6% (18)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 7.2% (7)LUBELSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBUSKIE: 2.1% (2)ŁÓDZKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroMAŁOPOLSKIE: 2.1% (2)MAZOWIECKIE: 7.2% (7)OPOLSKIE: 28.9% (28)PODKARPACKIE: 2.1% (2)PODLASKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPOMORSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroŚLĄSKIE: 16.5% (16)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWIELKOPOLSKIE: 9.3% (9)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 6.2% (6)

Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.

Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
  • 0%–10%
  • 10%–20%
  • 20%–30%
  • 30%–40%
  • 40%–50%
  • not listed in the dataset — not zero
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
OPOLSKIE28.9%28
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE18.6%18
ŚLĄSKIE16.5%16
WIELKOPOLSKIE9.3%9
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE7.2%7
MAZOWIECKIE7.2%7
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE6.2%6
LUBUSKIE2.1%2
MAŁOPOLSKIE2.1%2
PODKARPACKIE2.1%2

How did this count change between editions of the list?

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How did this count change between editions of the list?

The PESEL register publishes its lists every year. We show the number of people with this surname on each edition, beside how the whole list changed. We say what changed, not why.

male

The number of people with the surname LOS (male) in the PESEL register changed from 165 on 30 June 2019 to 393 on 20 January 2026: +138.2%. The whole list changed by +6.7% between those editions.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

As ofShare of the listPeople
30 June 2019*1 in 120,362165
22 January 20201 in 108,629183
1 February 20211 in 96,092208
27 January 20221 in 85,247237
30 January 20231 in 63,633327
19 January 20241 in 60,105349
22 January 20251 in 57,327368
20 January 20261 in 53,938393

* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.

female

The number of people with the surname LOS (female) in the PESEL register changed from 163 on 30 June 2019 to 393 on 20 January 2026: +141.1%. The whole list changed by +6.5% between those editions.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

As ofShare of the listPeople
30 June 2019*1 in 124,229163
22 January 20201 in 121,809166
2 February 20211 in 113,202179
27 January 2022The publisher's file dated 27 January 2022 repeats the data of the previous edition, so it is not shown as an edition of its own.
30 January 20231 in 59,032362
19 January 20241 in 57,896371
22 January 20251 in 56,082384
20 January 20261 in 54,861393

* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.

What does this surname mean?

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What does this surname mean?

We give a meaning only when a scholarly work supports it. We don't guess.

We have no sourced meaning for this surname. We could not find it in any scholarly work we are able to cite here, and we do not guess at meanings.

Where does it appear in old print?

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Where does it appear in old print?

Polona, the National Library's digital library, searches its catalogue and the text of its scanned pages. We show how many results it returns for this word, and from which years.

The word LOS appears on 946,461 pages of works not under copyright and in 1,143 catalogue records in Polona (searched on 5 October 2026).

VerifiedDigital libraryPoland · Biblioteka Narodowa · 5 October 2026

These are search results for the word in any inflected form. Some may be another meaning of the same spelling, and they are not a count of people or of mentions of anyone's family.

Pages by date of publication
  1. before 180013,195
  2. 1800–184999,917
  3. 1850–1899312,099
  4. 1900–1918149,522
  5. 1919–1939301,222
  6. 1940 on69,480

Catalogue records by kind

  • Books140
  • Ephemera138
  • Periodicals56
  • E-books42
  • Sheet music28
  • Articles20

Most common places of publication

  • Warszawa371,478
  • Kraków105,953
  • Lwów94,376
  • Poznań70,202
  • Wilno30,567
  • Katowice18,246

Example pages in the public domain

„de los padres.^ I — 'Plwr. HcnG El animal, los animales, teł amm<wx. Gen.”

Grammaire Espagnole, Expliqvée en François / Par Cesar Ovdin [...]. Augmentée en ceste dernière Edition par Antoine Ovdin [...]1651 · p. 30 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„ru- so-btuanienses , sus sobrinos, los ladzvingos, los Samogicios y los Ku- ronos.Acosadoportodaspartes”

Historia de la Polonia1840 · p. 62 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„de los incredulos. 141 Quando Don Quixote imagina que son exercitos los dos rebanos, hace una hermosa”

El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha. Pt. 1 t. 11818 · p. 286 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

Who well known has this surname?

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Who well known has this surname?

We have not looked this surname up in Wikidata yet.

How do we know?

Sources on this page

  • Official data Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji — Nazwiska występujące w rejestrze PESEL · 20 January 2026 · CC0 1.0 · Dane pochodzą z rejestru PESEL, Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, dane.gov.pl (CC0 1.0) · dane.gov.pl
  • Digital library Biblioteka Narodowa — Polona · Polona, Biblioteka Narodowa · polona.pl
How to read these figures
  • Wykaz nazwisk męskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
  • Surnames occurring once are not published; absence from the dataset is not zero.
  • The publisher does not state whether the split is by a person's sex or by the grammatical gender of the surname form. The datasets are therefore neither summed nor compared numerically.
  • The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.
  • Wykaz nazwisk żeńskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
  • Denominator: 21,197,537 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
  • The 1-in-X figure is rounded; the count of people is exact.
  • Denominator: 21,560,302 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
  • A permanent registered residence is an address in the register — not an actual address, and not information about a family's roots.
  • Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
  • Only 23.9% of bearers had a registered voivodeship, so this is not the surname's distribution.
  • Only 24.7% of bearers had a registered voivodeship, so this is not the surname's distribution.
  • The size of the list itself changes between editions, so beside the count we show the share of that edition's list (“1 in X”).
  • Polona's figures are search results for the word in any inflected form, in the catalogue and in the text of pages of works not under copyright; not every result is the surname.

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