Littman
surname · Latin script
Meaning: (i) From the Yiddish male personal name Litman, a different form of Lipman; (ii) a different form of Lightman
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɫɪtmən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Littman is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
(i) From the Yiddish male personal name Litman, a different form of Lipman; (ii) a different form of Lightman.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Littman 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.
from the Yiddish male personal name Litman, a variant of Lipman.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Possibly also English, a variant of Lightman.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Joseph Littmanb. 1898GBBritish property tycoon (1898–1953)
- Maxwell L. Littmanb. 1914USAmerican microbiologist and botanical collector (1914 - 1972)
- Walter Littmanb. 1929USPh.D. New York University 1956
- Bat Ye'orb. 1933EGnot in their usual nameessayist, penwoman, conspiracy theorist (1933-)
- David Littmanb. 1933GBBritish lobbyist and human rights activist (1933–2012)
- Lynne Littmanb. 1941USAmerican film director
- Lisa Littmanb. 1950USphysician
- Michael L. Littmanb. 1966USAmerican computer scientist
- Dan LittmanUSAmerican immunologist
- Sophie Littmandirector and filmmaker
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 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.5K | #17,030 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,529 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,212 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 63 | #18,606 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 28 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 22 | #49,867 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 22 | #15,034 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20 | #194,891 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #116,326 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Littman mean, and where does it come from?
- (i) From the Yiddish male personal name Litman, a different form of Lipman; (ii) a different form of Lightman. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Littman?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫɪtmən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Littman have the most bearers?
- Littman is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/littmanThe 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, “Littman”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.