Littles
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʎɪtəɫz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Littles is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Herts; Lancs. variant of Little with post-medieval excrescent -s. Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 1.4Kas Little(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 3.1Kas Little
- GDGrenada1 in 19Kas Little
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Littles itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
105,936 named Little, 2010
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines, as Little
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Main GB Location (1881): Herts; Lancs. variant of Little with post-medieval excrescent -s. Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Littles 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 | 105,936as Little | 1 in 3.1K | 106K | Littles | 43 |
| ES Spain | 146as Little | 1 in 343K | 146 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 76as Little | 1 in 73K | 76 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 74as Little | 1 in 1.4K | 74 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 62as Little | 1 in 617K | 39 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 54as Little | 1 in 101K | 54 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 6as Little | 1 in 19K | 6 | — | — |
105,936 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling little. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Hattie Littlesb. 1937USAmerican musician (1937-2000)
- Gene Littlesb. 1943USAmerican basketball player and coach (1943-2021)
- Lyndra Littlesb. 1987USAmerican basketball player (born 1987)
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 7 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #9,998 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3K | #10,125 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.8K | #10,483 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Littles mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Herts; Lancs. variant of Little with post-medieval excrescent -s. Further information: This name is rare in Britain but is thriving in the USA. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
- How do you pronounce Littles?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎɪtəɫz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Littles have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 106 thousand people named Little, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Littles most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Littles itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is St. Vincent & Grenadines's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.4 thousand people named Little.
- How common is the name Littles?
- In the United States, the national register counted 105,936 people named Little in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 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/littlesThe 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, “Littles”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.