Littler
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A distinguishing name for the smaller of two people with the same name
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎɪtəlɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Littler is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 331K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
- ESSpain1 in 2.9M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 5 (measured from records)
- 1 in 331K (inferred from the name graph)
1,005 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
A distinguishing name for the smaller of two people with the same name.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Littler 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,005 | 1 in 331K | 1.1K | Littler | 3 |
| ES Spain | 17 | 1 in 2.9M | 17 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 7 | 1 in 5.5M | 7 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | 1 |
1,005 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Littler is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, distinguishing epithet for the smaller of two men with the same personal name (see Little).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, comparative form of little: more little
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)
- William Littlerb. 1724English potter and porcelain maker
- Joe Littlerb. 1879AUAustralian rules footballer (1879-1956)
- Eric Littlerb. 1929GBEnglish footballer (1929-2009)
- Gene Littlerb. 1930USAmerican golfer (1930-2019)
- Mark Masterson Littlerb. 1939USbotanist
- Diane Scullion Littlerb. 1945USAmerican phycologist (1945- )
- Matt Littlerb. 1982GBBritish actor
- Craig Littlerb. 1985GBEnglish rugby league player
- Jamie Littlerb. 1986GBBritish illustrator
- Luke Littlerb. 2007GBEnglish darts player (born 2007)
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)
Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,249 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.1K | #21,605 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,787 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 17 | #91,572 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #165,776 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 4 | #73,146 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 3 | #123,108 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 does the name Littler mean, and where does it come from?
- A distinguishing name for the smaller of two people with the same name. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Littler?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎɪtəlɚ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Littler have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Littler, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled littler.
- Where is Littler most common?
- Littler is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 331 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Littler?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,005 people named Littler in 2010, about 1 in 331 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/littlerThe 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, “Littler”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.