Little
Little is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 865th, in 1896.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 197532 births
- Best rank
- #865in 1896
- Since 1883
- 1,791people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,573 boys have been named Little in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 32 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 32 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1956, and the 1970s alone account for 16%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 218 girls have also been given it, 12% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Little | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 15 | |
| 1890s | 20 | |
| 1900s | 25 | |
| 1910s | 124 | |
| 1920s | 199 | |
| 1930s | 140 | |
| 1940s | 161 | |
| 1950s | 167 | |
| 1960s | 210 | |
| 1970s | 248 | |
| 1980s | 145 | |
| 1990s | 95 | |
| 2000s | 14 | |
| 2010s | 10 |
In 1975, its biggest year
Little was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1975 were Michael, Jason, Christopher, James and David. See all of 1975.
Names that rose and fell with Little
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mauricepeak 1921
- Cliftonpeak 1975
- Theronpeak 1966
- Nelsonpeak 1959
- Josephpeak 1956
- Nickpeak 1960
- Authurpeak 1951
- Petepeak 1959
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.