Littlefield Surname

35,939th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 14,685 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
United States

Littlefield Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Littlefield,' one of the hundreds of Kent Lower). Of course many small enclosures would be called the 'little field.'

1610. Thomas Littlefeild, or Lyttlefeld, Hampshire: Register of the University of Oxford.

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Littlefield Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States13,4471:26,9553,375
England7011:79,4848,879
Australia2021:133,64214,486
Canada1401:263,18324,832
South Africa881:615,65646,403
Scotland311:172,7049,690
New Zealand131:348,33327,379
Wales91:343,83718,086
Philippines91:11,248,691221,039
United Arab Emirates51:1,832,45558,414
China51:273,464,31313,838
Germany41:20,126,365436,245
Singapore41:1,376,92628,409
Japan31:42,614,76459,022
Ireland21:2,354,47019,715
Norway21:2,571,14395,402
South Korea21:25,620,1284,175
Netherlands11:16,887,176156,465
Thailand11:70,638,3451,175,915
Taiwan11:23,444,74693,622
Sweden11:9,846,757347,448
Spain11:46,752,036156,870
United States Virgin Islands11:110,3756,934
Mexico11:124,126,205103,776
Malaysia11:29,494,225409,885
Lebanon11:5,637,08332,436
Italy11:61,156,688199,583
Iraq11:35,021,65431,813
France11:66,422,722504,397
Finland11:5,496,70284,025
Ecuador11:15,905,84650,210
Dominican Republic11:10,432,93236,508
Czechia11:10,633,469206,023
Brazil11:214,074,3321,693,628
Angola11:26,989,21411,853
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Ireland41:1,107,46726,093
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England4071:59,8907,018
Guernsey111:2,969521
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States4,7581:10,5551,385

Littlefield (13) may also be a first name.

Littlefield Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Littlefield,' one of the hundreds of Kent Lower). Of course many small enclosures would be called the 'little field.'

1610. Thomas Littlefeild, or Lyttlefeld, Hampshire: Register of the University of Oxford.

1684. Thomas Littlefeild and Sarah Allen: Marriage Alleg. (Canterbury).

1751. Married — John Littlefield and Mary Tempest: St. George's Chapel, Mayfair.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(English) belonging to Littlefield (Kent), or Dweller at the Little Field [Middle English litel, Old English lýtel + Middle English Old English feld, a field, plain]

Surnames of the United Kingdom (1912) by Henry Harrison

(English) Dweller in, or near, the small field or open place in a wood.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

A place in Kent giving name to a hundred.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

Littlefield Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Littlefield Come From? nationality or country of origin

The surname Littlefield is carried by more people in The United States than any other country/territory. It may also be rendered in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.

How Common Is The Last Name Littlefield? popularity and diffusion

The last name is the 35,939th most prevalent surname on earth It is held by around 1 in 496,258 people. It occurs mostly in The Americas, where 88 percent of Littlefield are found; 88 percent are found in North America and 88 percent are found in Anglo-North America. Littlefield is also the 3,159,357th most commonly occurring first name globally, held by 13 people.

This surname is most widely held in The United States, where it is held by 13,447 people, or 1 in 26,955. In The United States Littlefield is most prevalent in: Texas, where 11 percent reside, California, where 10 percent reside and Maine, where 9 percent reside. Other than The United States it is found in 34 countries. It is also common in England, where 5 percent reside and Australia, where 1 percent reside.

Littlefield Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Littlefield has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Littlefield surname expanded 283 percent between 1880 and 2014; in England it expanded 172 percent between 1881 and 2014 and in Ireland it decreased 50 percent between 1901 and 2014.

Littlefield Last Name Statistics demography

The religious devotion of those holding the Littlefield last name is chiefly Catholic (100%) in Ireland.

In The United States those bearing the Littlefield surname are 3.7% more likely to be registered with the Republican Party than the national average, with 50.47% being registered with the political party.

The amount Littlefield earn in different countries varies significantly. In South Africa they earn 34.09% more than the national average, earning R 318,660 per year; in United States they earn 3.17% more than the national average, earning $44,516 USD per year and in Canada they earn 2.54% more than the national average, earning $50,944 CAD per year.

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Littlefield Reference & Research

Littlefield DNA Website - A web page dedicated to the genetic research of those who bear the surname and its variants.

Littlefield FamilyTree DNA Project - A description of a group researching the paternal lines of men who bear the surname with the help of DNA analysis.

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