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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Little

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : nickname for a small man, or distinguishing epithet for the younger of two bearers of the same personal name, from Middle English littel, Old English l̄tel, originally a diminutive of l̄t (see Light 3).
  • Irish : translation of Gaelic Ó Beagáin ‘descendant of Beagán’ (see Begin).
  • Translation of French Petit and Lepetit; also used as an English form of names such as Jean-Petit ‘little John’.
  • Translation of any of various other European name meaning ‘little’.

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