Little

• Littel, Littell, Lytle, Lyttle, Litle, Lightle, Lightley, Lighthill

English surname, from the adjective little (“small, (ironic) big, not much, younger”). Compare Short, Shorty.

This has also been translated and adapted from similar-meaning names in other languages, such as:

• Irish Ó Beagáin (“descendant of Beagán”), from a diminutive of beag (“small”), see also Began.
• French Petit and Polish Mały
• Native American names such as Navajo hastiin yázhí (“little man”), see Yazzie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪtəl/

Little (countable and uncountable, plural Littles)

1. A characteristical surname.
2. An unincorporated community in Breathitt County, Kentucky, United States, named after the local Little family.
3. An unincorporated community in Tyler County, West Virginia, United States.

• Littleman

• Hanks, Patrick & al. The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland (2016), p. 1602.

• tillet