The LOOS surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,216	7289	0.002	16
United States (1880 census)	742	7012	0.001	15
Change since 1880	+3474	-277	+0.001	+1
Other Countries
Australia	122	11958	0.001	7
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for LOOS by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Illinois	460	2849	0.004	37
Ohio	318	4429	0.003	28
Wisconsin	285	2538	0.005	53
Florida	284	6945	0.002	18
California	270	9829	0.001	8
Top States for LOOS by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Nebraska	228	786	0.013	133
Wisconsin	285	2538	0.005	53
Colorado	178	3173	0.004	41
South Dakota	28	4819	0.004	37
Illinois	460	2849	0.004	37

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LOOS live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LOOS represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LOOS in Illinois than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LOOS by picking someone at random in Nebraska than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LOOS

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Netherlands

Language of origin: Dutch

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LOOS surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LOOS in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	47	1.11
Asian/Pacific	46	1.09
Mixed Race	28	0.66
Black/African American	19	0.45
Native American/Alaskan	9	0.21
White (Caucasian)	4,067	96.47

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LOOS surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to LOOS

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LOOS.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.