Luus
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
/luus/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Luus is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 34Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 4.7M
- ITItaly≈1 in 18M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 37 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lüüs in EE Estonia, DE Germany.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Luus counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Luus | 32 |
| EE Estonia | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 30 | Lüüs | 3 |
| US United States | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 20M | listed | Luus | 37 |
| AU Australia | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Luus | 20 |
| DE Germany | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 12M | — | Lüüs | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | 199 | — | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Luus is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Estonian, inessive singular of luu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, conditional of lui
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nds (Germany), louse (insect)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmw-ecg, loose, slack
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Koit Luusb. 1967EEEstonian journalist (born 1967)
- Vega-Freya LuusEEEstonian voice actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 30 | #3,540 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 24 | #4,674 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Luus?
- In the etymology graph, Luce is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Luus?
- In Swahili /luus/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Luus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Luus in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled luus.
- How common is the name Luus?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1,900 people in South Africa have Luus as their first surname, about 1 in 34 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Luus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/luusThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Luus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.