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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Little

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

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not recorded in 2025

2025 births

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All-time births

1,573

peak year 1975

More common than

92%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1975
32 births
Best rank
#865
in 1896
First recorded
1883
#983 that year
Last recorded
2017
no later published record
Average birth year
1953
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
101 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 197532#1,612Peak
  2. 196829#1,469
  3. 197129#1,654
  4. 197429#1,679
  5. 195928#1,518

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #865 in 1896 · peak births 32 in 1975

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 88% boys■ 12% girls

1,573 boys · 218 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Little has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.