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Littleton
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English
Etymology
From en ang lȳtel small, little + ang tūn enclosure; settlement, town, equivalent to en little -ton. en Lyttelton.
Proper noun
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en village co/Tipperary c/Ireland.
en locality in the carea/Lithgow eastern s/New South Wales c/Australia.
en number of places c/England:
en village/and/cpar in bor/Cheshire West and Chester co/Cheshire OS grid ref SJ4466. Parish map (Cheshire)
en hamlet par/Blandford St Mary co/Dorset OS grid ref ST8904. List of United Kingdom locations: Litn-Liz#Little T
en village par/Littleton and Harestock dist/Winchester co/Hampshire OS grid ref SU4532.
en hamlet par/Chew Magna carea/Bath and North East Somerset co/Somerset OS grid ref ST5563.
en hamlet par/Compton Dundon co/Somerset previously in dist/South Somerset OS grid ref ST4930.
en hamlet par/Artington bor/Guildford co/Surrey OS grid ref SU9847.
en village near town/Shepperton bor/Spelthorne co/Surrey OS grid ref TQ0768.
en hamlet par/Semington co/Wiltshire OS grid ref ST9060.
en number of places c/US:
en home rule municipality/county seat co/Arapahoe County s/Colorado.
en Laura Smith-Spark Are mass killings on the increase? Criminologist says no w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/03/us/us-mass-killings 2012-04-03 In 1999 at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 12 of their fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives in the school library. https://web.archive.org/web/20210614212732/https://www.cnn.com/2012/04/03/us/us-mass-killings/
en village co/Schuyler County s/Illinois.
en ucomm co/Buchanan County s/Iowa.
en ucomm co/Clay County s/Kentucky.
en town co/Aroostook County s/Maine.
en town co/Middlesex County s/Massachusetts. TopoZone: Littleton, Massachusetts
en town co/Grafton County s/New Hampshire. TopoZone: Littleton, New Hampshire
en town co/Halifax County s/North Carolina.
en CDP co/Wetzel County s/West Virginia.
en habitational Old English.
Derived terms
en High Littleton Littleton and Harestock South Littleton
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Littleton is the 3581st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 9939 individuals. Littleton is most common among White (74.9%) and Black/African American (20.26%) individuals.
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