How common is the surname Littlejohn?

12,047 people in the United States had the surname Littlejohn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 25,628 Americans. It ranked 2,976th of 162,253 surnames.

How do you pronounce Littlejohn?

Littlejohn is /ˈlɪ.ɾɫ̩.d͡ʒɔn/, 3 syllables.

Is the surname Littlejohn getting more or less common?

More common. 11,383 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,047 in 2010, up 5.8%.

The surname Littlejohn

A surname, carried by 12,047 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈlɪ.ɾɫ̩.d͡ʒɔn/ 3 syllables Soundex L342

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Littlejohn is more common than 98.2% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 12,047 people named Littlejohn in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 25,628 Americans. That is up 5.8% since 2000, when the Census counted 11,383.

#2,976

rank among US surnames

12,047

people in 2010

4.1

per 100,000 Americans

+5.8%

change since 2000 (was #2,893)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#2,967	Rust	12,086	25,546
#2,968	Duckworth	12,080	25,558
#2,969	Frantz	12,079	25,561
#2,970	O'Reilly	12,074	25,571
#2,971	Bundy	12,065	25,590
#2,972	Bethea	12,061	25,599
#2,973	Reinhardt	12,057	25,607

Who is named Littlejohn

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

47% of people named Littlejohn identified as Black (not Hispanic), 44% as white (not Hispanic) and 4.3% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 47%
White (not Hispanic) 44%
Two or more races 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 2.1%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Littlejohn

Littles

Littlejohn has the Soundex code L342, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L342.

Questions

How common is the surname Littlejohn?: 12,047 people in the United States had the surname Littlejohn in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 25,628 Americans. It ranked 2,976th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Littlejohn?: In the 2010 Census, 47% of people named Littlejohn identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 44% as white (not Hispanic).
How do you pronounce Littlejohn?: Littlejohn is /ˈlɪ.ɾɫ̩.d͡ʒɔn/, 3 syllables.
Is the surname Littlejohn getting more or less common?: More common. 11,383 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 12,047 in 2010, up 5.8%.