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)
The name Little is the #5,963 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,791 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 22.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 22.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,091 (32.6% percentile) for all time with 1,573 births since 1883. For girls, it ranks #5,498 (3.8% percentile) for all time with 218 births since 1918.
Little first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for boys and 1918 for girls). Birth data for Little is available in 101 out of the 135 years between 1883 and 2017 (101 years for boys and 36 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Little has been given predominantly to boys, with 87.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2017, 100.0% of babies named Little were boys.
For boys, Little reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #633) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 62 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
For girls, Little reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #780) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Little".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Little is pronounced as LIH-tuhl, which has 2 syllables.
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