The surname Lightle
A surname, carried by 1,378 people in the United States.
Pronounced /ˈlaitəl/ 2 syllables Soundex L234
Origin
Variant of Little, from little (“small, (ironic) big, not much, younger”), from a regional pronunciation.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,378 people named Lightle in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 224,053 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,297.
Who is named Lightle
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
90% of people named Lightle identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.4% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 90%
- Black (not Hispanic) 4.3%
- Two or more races 2.4%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Surnames that sound like Lightle
Lightle has the Soundex code L234, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L234.
Questions
- Where does the surname Lightle come from?
- Variant of Little, from little (“small, (ironic) big, not much, younger”), from a regional pronunciation.
- How common is the surname Lightle?
- 1,378 people in the United States had the surname Lightle in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 224,053 Americans. It ranked 19,581st of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Lightle?
- In the 2010 Census, 90% of people named Lightle identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Black (not Hispanic).
- How do you pronounce Lightle?
- Lightle is /ˈlaitəl/, 2 syllables.
- Is the surname Lightle getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,297 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,378 in 2010, up 6.2%.