# Lyttle (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/lyttle/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,986 |
| US rank (2010) | 14,902 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 155,461 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.0% (1,929 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈlɪtəl/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Variant of Little, from little (“small, (ironic) big, not much, younger”), from a regional prounciation.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Lyttle in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 64% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 30% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.5% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Lyttle in the United States.

## People named Lyttle

- Ruth Lyttle Satter, American botanist, physiologist and mathematician (1923-1989)

## Similar surnames

Little, Lytle, Liddell, Ludlow, Liddle, Littell, Laidlaw, Ledwell.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.