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loose Name Meaning and History

  1. English: habitational name from Loose in Kent or Suffolk, both named from Old English hlose ‘pigsty’.
  2. Dutch: variant of Loos 3.
  3. German: variant of Loos 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of loose Families in the US in 1920
Number of loose families
 65-128
 22-64		 1-21
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 44 - Messages: 107
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Irene Loose JuneBarker74 0
Edith Elizabeth Loose - South Africa - circa 1905 smisouth 0
Loose in Heringen/Werra (Hessen) WGFGER 0
Looking for relatives MaryNeuman11 0
Loose from Kraft Russia loosew 3
LOOSE Pat Melville 6
Loose from Norfolk England Harriet 14
Casper Loos Bobbie Hamsher 0
Loose relations in Illinois Chuck Rhinesmith 0
Theodore LOHSE (LOOSE) Wisconsin b 1890 George 0
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