LONG

in Kentucky

There are 3,274 people with the last name "LONG" in Kentucky.

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Ranking in Kentucky

NameRank
LONG 105
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  1. is 101st most common Barnes
  2. is 102nd most common Ray
  3. is 103rd most common Osborne
  4. is 104th most common Bowling
  5. is 105th most common Long
  6. is 106th most common Barnett
  7. is 107th most common Woods
  8. is 108th most common Riley
  9. is 109th most common Ford

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for LONG

James, John, Michael, William, David, Charles, Robert, Gary, Mary, Larry



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 (22572205 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 (18791849 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 (722481 BC). The other source is the Xiongnu nationality, a non-Han Chinese people.

Chinese 郎: variant of Lang.

Cambodian: unexplained.


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