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Long

in South Carolina

There are 4,436 people with the last name "Long" in South Carolina.

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Ranking in South Carolina

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Long 69
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  1. is 65th most common Stewart
  2. is 66th most common Bell
  3. is 67th most common Kelly
  4. is 68th most common Bennett
  5. is 69th most common Long
  6. is 70th most common Myers
  7. is 71st most common Morgan
  8. is 72nd most common Patterson
  9. is 73rd most common Fowler

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Long

James, William, John, Robert, Charles, David, Michael, Richard, Mary, Joseph

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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