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.
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