Littleton

9,616 people in the United States were counted with the surname Littleton in the 2020 census, making it the 3,608th most common in the country. That is about one person in 31,100.

By the numbers

People: 9,616
Rank: 3,608th
How common: 1 in 31,100
Per 100,000: 3.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English lȳtel (“small, little”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”), equivalent.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Littleton described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 71.8%
Black, not Hispanic 19.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 2.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%

Surnames like Littleton

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.