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Long

in Connecticut

There are 1,163 people with the last name "Long" in Connecticut.

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Ranking in Connecticut

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Long 185
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  1. is 181st most common Holmes
  2. is 182nd most common Simpson
  3. is 183rd most common Macdonald
  4. is 184th most common Maldonado
  5. is 185th most common Long
  6. is 186th most common Ellis
  7. is 187th most common Hunt
  8. is 188th most common Gallagher
  9. is 189th most common Alexander

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Long

Michael, William, James, David, John, Robert, Mary, Edward, Thomas, Richard

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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