Littie vs Little
American parents have registered 1,791 Littles since 1880, against 623 Litties. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Littie Little
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 117 years in which either name was published, Little for 90 years and Littie for 27 years. The lead changed hands 13 times.
- 1880–1908 Littie ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1917–2017 Little ahead, apart from one short spell
10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Littie | Little | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 623 | 1,791 |
| Most in one year | 20 | 41 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 80 | 1,000 |
| Median age today | 80 | 53 |
| Peak year | 1929 | 1975 |
| Best rank | 1,825th girls | 1,593rd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1883 |
| Girls / boys | 623 / 0 | 218 / 1,573 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Litties alive today are over 80; half the Littles are over 53. That is 27 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Littie and Little.