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loos Name Meaning and History

  1. North German: habitational name from any of several places called Loose or Loosey.
  2. North German: from a short form of Nikolaus, German form of Nicholas.
  3. Dutch: nickname from the adjective loos ‘cunning’, ‘artful’, ‘guileful’.
  4. English: variant spelling of Loose.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of loos Families in the US in 1920
Number of loos families
 43-84
 15-42
 1-14
 0
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