The Littel surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 171 people carried this name — #104,602 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,666,700 people counted. That is down 45% from 312 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Littel surname
A variant of Little, from little (“small, not much, younger”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Littel» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 59 people named Littel.
Those born in France came from 4 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Littel,
with a public archive behind them.
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Willem Diederik van Drunen Littel 1866–1920 · politician -
Sander Littel 1939–2023 · painter
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Dennis Littel 1981– · windsurfer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Littel.
- Liss 3,472 · U.S. census
- Lisse 112 · U.S. census
- Lissy 272 · U.S. census
- List 3,814 · U.S. census
- Litalien 522 · U.S. census
- Litt 1,183 · U.S. census
- Littner 102 · U.S. census
- Litty 328 · U.S. census
- Litwin 2,079 · U.S. census
- Litzler 179 · U.S. census
- Liu 78,370 · U.S. census
- Liva 307 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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