Little

girls:

218 births since 1918

#5498 (4th percentile)

boys:

1.6k births since 1883

#3091 (33rd percentile)

overall:

1.8k births since 1883

#5963 (23rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Little".

1883 2017 18832017

Key Statistics

Total Births
218
Peak Births
10
Peak Year
1980
First Recorded
1918
Peak Percentile
0.6%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#566
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
1,573
Peak Births
32
Peak Year
1975
First Recorded
1883
Peak Percentile
4.1%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#198
Current Rank
#914
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Little

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Little. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Little is pronounced as LIH-tuhl.

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100.0%
LIH-tuhl (2 syllables)
Verified
100.0% confidence
L IH1 T AH0 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Little. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Little, please vote using the thumbs up button.

lih-DEHL (2 syllables)
2 names 1.9k births
L IH0 D EH1 L

Names with this pronunciation:

leh-DEHL (2 syllables)
2 names 567 births
L EH0 D EH1 L

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like L IH1 T AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.