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littlejohn Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish and English: distinguishing epithet for the smallest of two or more bearers of the common personal name John. Compare Meiklejohn. In some cases the nickname may have been bestowed on a large man, irrespective of his actual personal name, in allusion to the character in the Robin Hood legend, whose nickname was of ironic application.
  2. Translation of French Jeanpetit.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of littlejohn Families in the US in 1920
Number of littlejohn families
 140-277
 47-139		 1-46
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Humphreys and Littlejohns Gail Littlejohn Raul 2
littlejohn catherine 1
California Littlejohns Jody Wood 17
LITTLEJOHN djlittlejohn 1
Littlejohn of Columbus Oh ecky1938 32
Ina Mae Littlejohn of Irene, TX 1927 drbrownlee 0
Littlejohns of Arkansas and Colorado Karen Van Scyoc 1
Robert Littlejohn - Nebraska cyd000 0
Littlejohn sharonl1953 0
William Littlejohn John Littlejohn 63
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