Name

Name LESS

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 71 births of Less in the countries below, which represents an average of 1 birth of children bearing the first name Less per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 0 birth.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Less
In Italiano

Nome Less

Information about the first name Less

The first name Less has been assigned to:

100.00% to boys
0.00% to girls

The country where the first name Less is the most common is:

United State of America

This first name is on trend: Male

This first name has 4 letters including 1 vowel and 3 consonants

Less in Japanese ^*

Romaji	resu
Katakana	レス
Hiragana	れす
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Origin and meaning of name Less

English

Etymology

From Middle English lesse, les, from Old English lǣs, as in þȳ lǣs þe.

Etymology (Adjective)

less (not comparable)
(archaic) Lesser; smaller.

Etymology (Adverb)

less (diminutive comparative)
comparative degree of little
Used for constructing syntactic diminutive comparatives of adjectives and adverbs.
To a smaller extent or degree.

Etymology (Determiner)

less
(Now chiefly of numbers or dimensions) comparative form of little: more little; of inferior size, degree or extent; smaller, lesser. [from 11th c.]
A smaller amount of; not as much. [from 12th c.]
(proscribed) Fewer; a smaller number of. [from 14th c.]

Etymology (Noun)

less (uncountable)
A smaller amount or quantity.

Etymology (Preposition)

less
Minus; not including

Etymology (Conjunction)

less
(dialectal, nonstandard) unless

Anagrams

ELSS, SELs, SLEs

Noun

LESs
plural of LES

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /lɛs/
Rhymes: -ɛs

Hungarian

Etymology

les +‎ -j

Pronunciation

IPA(key): [ˈlɛʃː]
Hyphenation: less
Rhymes: -ɛʃː

Verb

less
second-person singular subjunctive present indefinite of les

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Löss.

Noun

less m inan
(geology) loess

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /lɛs/
Rhymes: -ɛs
Syllabification: less

Swedish

Etymology

Clipping of lessen, pronunciation spelling of ledsen (“sad”), alternatively interpreted as a pronunciation spelling of a clipping of ledsen.

Adjective

less (comparative mer less, superlative mest less)
tired (of something irritating)

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈlɛsː/

Adjective (Declension)

Only used predicatively with the common gender singular. The comparative form lessare and superlative lessast exist but are considered nonstandard, so this word is mostly compared periphrastically.