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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Polish (Łoś) : nickname for a large, ungainly person, from Polish łoś ‘elk’.
  • Dutch : nickname from Middle Dutch losch ‘squinting’; ‘cross-eyed’; ‘one-eyed’.

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