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los Name Meaning and History

  1. Polish (Los): nickname for a large, ungainly person, from Polish los ‘elk’.
  2. 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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The los name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the los family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of los Families in the US in 1920
Number of los families
 7-12
 3-6		 1-2
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 6 - Messages: 18
ThreadAuthorReplies
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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