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    The surname Littlewood

    An English place surname, carried by 652 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex L343

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Littlewood is more common than 78.6% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    Habitational surname typical of Yorkshire, from any of several minor places so called. They are named with Old English lȳtel (“little”) + wudu (“wood”).

    Littlewood 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 652 people named Littlewood in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 473,536 Americans. That is up 20% since 2000, when the Census counted 545.

    #34,668
    rank among US surnames
    652
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +19.6%
    change since 2000 (was #38,198)

    Who is named Littlewood

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

    96% of people named Littlewood identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as two or more races and 1.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Two or more races 1.4%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.2%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.8%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Littlewood

    Littlewood 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 Littlewood come from?
    Habitational surname typical of Yorkshire, from any of several minor places so called. They are named with Old English lȳtel (“little”) + wudu (“wood”).
    How common is the surname Littlewood?
    652 people in the United States had the surname Littlewood in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 473,536 Americans. It ranked 34,668th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Littlewood?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Littlewood identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as two or more races.
    What type of surname is Littlewood?
    Littlewood is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Littlewood getting more or less common?
    More common. 545 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 652 in 2010, up 20%.