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Long

in Oklahoma

There are 4,140 people with the last name "Long" in Oklahoma.

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Ranking in Oklahoma

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Long 53
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  1. is 49th most common Reed
  2. is 50th most common Stewart
  3. is 51st most common Wood
  4. is 52nd most common Cooper
  5. is 53rd most common Long
  6. is 54th most common Collins
  7. is 55th most common Nelson
  8. is 56th most common James
  9. is 57th most common Barnes

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Long

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