as a Last Name
- 16,437
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Light
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. nickname for a happy, cheerful person, from Middle English lyght, Old English lēoht ‘light’ (not dark), ‘bright’, ‘cheerful’. 2. nickname for someone who was busy and active, from Middle English lyght, Old English līoht ‘light’ (not heavy), ‘nimble’, ‘quick’. The two words lēoht and līoht were originally distinct, but they were confused in English from an early period. 3. nickname for a small person, from Middle English lite, Old English lȳt ‘little’, influenced by lyght as in 1 and 2.
| 1,906th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 16,437
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Light per capita
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