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Long

in Colorado

There are 2,988 people with the last name "Long" in Colorado.

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Ranking in Colorado

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Long 93
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  1. is 89th most common Ward
  2. is 90th most common Edwards
  3. is 91st most common Wagner
  4. is 92nd most common Ross
  5. is 93rd most common Long
  6. is 94th most common Bailey
  7. is 95th most common Fisher
  8. is 96th most common Schmidt
  9. is 97th most common Carlson

Similar Names and Nicknames

Lindsey, Lang, Lindsay, Lange, Lund, Land, Lind, Longo, Longoria, Lundy

Most Common First Names for Long

Michael, David, Robert, William, John, James, Richard, Christopher, Brian, Stephen

Meaning & History

English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long’, ‘tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus).

Irish (Ulster (Armagh) and Munster): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan).

Chinese 龙: from the name of an official treasurer called Long, who lived during the reign of the model emperor Shun (2257–2205 BC). his descendants adopted this name as their surname. Additionally, a branch of the Liu clan (see Lau 1), descendants of Liu Lei, who supposedly had the ability to handle dragons, was granted the name Yu-Long (meaning roughly ‘resistor of dragons’) by the Xia emperor Kong Jia (1879–1849 BC). Some descendants later simplified Yu-Long to Long and adopted it as their surname.

Chinese 隆: there are two sources for this name. One was a place in the state of Lu in Shandong province during the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 BC). The other source is the Xiongnu nationality, a non-Han Chinese people.

Chinese 郎: variant of Lang.

Cambodian: unexplained.

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