(note that you must press search lots of books after clicking on the link.) and since lil is a very popular name (both as a first name and as a hyphenated portion of an apparently arabic name), any ngram results for that variant must be ignored But as @sumelic points out, the ngram results are highly suspect, due to the. As i understand it, apostrophes are used to show where a letter/letters are missing (e.g So when i abbreviate little, is it correct to write
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