Ngram shows li'l beating out lil' and li'l' since before 1900.
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Lil 是little的简称。最早是黑人直接的亲密称呼，就跟你朋友叫你小李小张小王一样。 因为hiphop最早来自黑人街区， 所以最早很多rapper就保留了自己lil xxx的名字。就成了一. (note that you must press search lots of books after clicking on the link.) and since lil is a very popular name (both as.
