Many people think this is the Little Dipper, since the observable stars, six for most people, look like a very small dipper and handle.
Growing up in Northern Minnesota, the Dippers dominate the long dark winter nights. I, too, first called it the Little Dipper. I learned quite early, though, that the North Star forms the end of the handle of the Little Dipper, and that the two stars forming the end of the Big Dipper point to the North Star. The "Tiny Dipper" was not part of this group. The Little Dipper is harder to see than the big Dipper because of its size and the dimness of some of its stars. The Pleiades (I didn't learn the name until much later) were easier to see. Even, for a short while, in my young inexperience, I thought I was the first to discover this "Tiny Dipper".