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Long

in Massachusetts

There are 2,593 people with the last name "Long" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

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Long 191
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  1. is 187th most common Hamilton
  2. is 188th most common Bell
  3. is 189th most common Leonard
  4. is 190th most common Watson
  5. is 191st most common Long
  6. is 192nd most common Wallace
  7. is 193rd most common Edwards
  8. is 194th most common Jordan
  9. is 195th most common Donahue

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Long

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