Little — boys' name

What the Data Says About Little

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,573 babies named Little between 1883 and 2017, spanning 135 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Little currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 32 babies received it in a single year. Little is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 218 additional births since 1918.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Little performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 248 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Little shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 49 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Mississippi and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Little in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Little in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,573 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.