Popularity of the last name by country

United Kingdom

• Lincolnshire (96)
• Norfolk (61)
• London (36)
• Lancashire (31)
• Northumberland (20)
• Nottinghamshire (19)
• Kent (14)
• Herefordshire and Worcester (13)
• Essex (12)
• North Yorkshire (12)
• Wiltshire (12)
• Cleveland (11)
• Surrey (11)
• Buckinghamshire (10)
• Hampshire (10)
• Strathclyde (10)
• Cambridgeshire (9)
• Cumbria (9)
• Warwickshire (8)
• Berkshire (7)
• Lothian (7)
• Oxfordshire (7)
• Cheshire (6)
• Suffolk (6)
• Derbyshire (5)
• Gwent (5)
• Leicestershire (5)
• Bedfordshire (4)
• Cornwall (4)
• Devon (4)
• County Durham (4)
• Somerset (4)
• South Yorkshire (4)
• Londonderry (3)
• West Yorkshire (3)
• Gloucestershire (2)
• Northamptonshire (2)
• Shropshire (2)
• Tyne and Wear (2)
• West Glamorgan (2)
• West Midlands (2)
• Avon (1)
• Clwyd (1)
• Dorset (1)
• Down (1)
• Fifeshire (1)
• Hertfordshire (1)
• Jersey (1)
• Staffordshire (1)
• East Sussex (1)
• Western Isles (1)

All countries

• France (7,074)
• United States (5,036)
• Canada (1,031)
• Belgium (938)
• Spain (917)
• Austria (640)
• United Kingdom (585)
• Slovakia (Slovak Republic) (560)
• Netherlands (427)
• Hungary (266)
• Australia (245)
• Unknown country (239)
• Germany (219)
• New Zealand (155)
• Chile (81)
• Switzerland (48)
• Denmark (46)
• Finland (37)
• Algeria (32)
• Mexico (30)
• Italy (25)
• Ireland (24)
• Luxembourg (22)
• Romania (17)
• Puerto Rico (16)
• Poland (14)
• Colombia (13)
• Czech republic (13)
• Argentina (11)
• Norway (9)
• Portugal (9)
• Russian Federation (8)
• Estonia (6)
• India (6)
• Paraguay (6)
• Sweden (6)
• Lebanon (5)
• Mauritius (5)
• Turkey (5)
• Brazil (4)

Origine of last name

LOIS : 1: Portuguese and Galician: from a local variant of the personal names <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Luis">Luis</a> or Eloi (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Loy">Loy</a>).2: Greek: from a Hellenized form of the French personal name <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Louis">Louis</a>. In North America this surname may also be a shortening of Loizos (or its patronymic Loizidis) which have the same origin.3: Greek: from a pet form of personal names ending in -logos such as Palaiologos.