How common is the surname Littleton?

9,939 people in the United States had the surname Littleton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,064 Americans. It ranked 3,581st of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Littleton?

Carol Littleton, American film editor.

Where is the surname Littleton most common?

Wikidata records people named Littleton in the United States.

Is the surname Littleton getting more or less common?

More common. 9,829 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,939 in 2010, up 1.1%.

The surname Littleton

An English place surname, carried by 9,939 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex L343

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Littleton is more common than 97.8% of them.

Origin

English origin

From Old English lȳtel (“small, little”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), equivalent to little + -ton. Doublet of Lyttelton.

Littleton is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 9,939 people named Littleton in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 31,064 Americans. That is up 1.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 9,829.

#3,581

rank among US surnames

9,939

people in 2010

3.4

per 100,000 Americans

+1.1%

change since 2000 (was #3,335)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#3,573	Stine	9,979	30,940
#3,574	Catalano	9,973	30,958
#3,575	Beckham	9,960	30,999
#3,576	Ashcraft	9,957	31,008
#3,578	Kunz	9,953	31,020
#3,579	Abney	9,948	31,036
#3,580	Albertson	9,943	31,052

Who is named Littleton

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

75% of people named Littleton identified as white (not Hispanic), 20% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 75%
Black (not Hispanic) 20%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.9%
Two or more races 1.9%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Littletons

1 notable person on Wikidata, most written-about first

Carol Littleton
American film editor, born 1942

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Littleton

Littlewood

Littleton has the Soundex code L343, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L343.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Littleton come from?: From Old English lȳtel (“small, little”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), equivalent to little + -ton. Doublet of Lyttelton.
How common is the surname Littleton?: 9,939 people in the United States had the surname Littleton in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 31,064 Americans. It ranked 3,581st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Littleton?: In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Littleton identified as white (not Hispanic), and 20% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Littleton?: Carol Littleton, American film editor.
Where is the surname Littleton most common?: Wikidata records people named Littleton in the United States.
What type of surname is Littleton?: Littleton is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Littleton getting more or less common?: More common. 9,829 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 9,939 in 2010, up 1.1%.