Littleton
Last seen for boys in 1959 at #3,988
- Peak · boys
- 1896 · 8 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 312since 1882
Littleton over time
Rank among boys' names. Littleton has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1959 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | #3,559 | 6 |
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| 1952 | #2,073 | 14 |
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| 1949 | #2,802 | 8 |
| 1948 | #3,668 | 5 |
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| 1946 | #3,525 | 5 |
| 1945 | #2,996 | 6 |
| 1944 | #3,109 | 6 |
| 1943 | #3,231 | 6 |
| 1942 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,333 | 10 |
| 1940 | #2,322 | 10 |
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| 1938 | #3,175 | 6 |
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| 1935 | #2,951 | 7 |
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| 1932 | #2,465 | 10 |
| 1931 | #3,390 | 6 |
| 1930 | #3,289 | 7 |
| 1929 | #2,766 | 9 |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,451 | 7 |
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| 1925 | #3,155 | 8 |
| 1924 | #2,132 | 15 |
| 1923 | #3,175 | 8 |
| 1922 | #2,630 | 11 |
| 1921 | #2,986 | 9 |
| 1920 | #2,967 | 9 |
| 1919 | #2,511 | 11 |
| 1918 | #2,699 | 10 |
| 1917 | #2,280 | 12 |
| 1916 | #2,259 | 12 |
| 1915 | #2,458 | 10 |
| 1914 | #2,651 | 7 |
| 1913 | #2,273 | 7 |
| 1912 | #2,544 | 5 |
| 1911 | #1,740 | 5 |
| 1910 | #1,589 | 5 |
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| 1908 | #1,373 | 5 |
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| 1899 | #1,051 | 5 |
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| 1896 | #826 | 8 |
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| 1894 | #954 | 6 |
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| 1884 | #971 | 5 |
| 1883 | — | |
| 1882 | #837 | 6 |
| 1881 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Littleton! It came in at #837, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1883–1893, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Littleton is popular in 1884
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Littleton
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1959
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1896 at #826 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1897, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · 1882–1896
- Highest: 1 in 14,946 boys born in 1896 were named Littleton (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 426,904 boys born in 1959 (0.00%)
- 26.9% of all boys named Littleton (84) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | #837 (1882) | #904 |
| 1890s | 19 | #826 (1896) | #944 |
| 1900s | 5 | #1,373 (1908) | #1,373 |
| 1910s | 84 | #1,589 (1910) | #2,300 |
| 1920s | 76 | #2,132 (1924) | #2,908 |
| 1930s | 36 | #2,465 (1932) | #3,054 |
| 1940s | 56 | #2,322 (1940) | #2,998 |
| 1950s | 25 | #2,073 (1952) | #3,207 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Littleton in 1884
Top boys' names in 1884
More about 1884
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114,441 boys got a published name in 1884; 1 in 22,888 of them was named Littleton, which outranked 13.7% of the 1,125 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 41.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 154 names at #971; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.