Surname Loos in modern Croatia

In Croatia, Loos families are generally Croats (from Novi Vinodolski ), very rarely Serbs. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and in Serbia.

Prevalence

About 20 people with faimily name Loos live in Croatia today, in 11 households. There were 10 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number doubled.
They are located in five Croatian cities only: in Zagreb (15), Ogulin (<5), Duga Resa (<5), Novi Vinodolski (<5), and in Korcula on the Island of Korcula (<5).

Outside Croatia

Family name Loos (including: Looss , Loosz , Lohos and Loosse ) is present in 56 countries worldwide. The family name "Loos " is used by some 20000 people in Germany , about 10000 in the United States , and some 5000 people in the Netherlands. "Loosse " is used by small number of people in the United States.

Characteristic first names

Darko Loos, Željka Loos, Daliborka Loos, Srećko Loos, Petar Loos, Denis Loos, Stanislav Loos, Anita Loos, Daria Loos, Adolf Loos, Ursula Loos, Štefanija Loos, Ivanka Loos, Hubert Loos, Tamara Loos, Franjo Loos, Anica Loos, Marija Loos, Petra Loos

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over five times, the first time 1906 in source Yearbook and Directory of Literary Society of St. Jerome 1906.

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