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Long

in Texas

There are 11,181 people with the last name "Long" in Texas.

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Ranking in Texas

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Long 145
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  1. is 141st most common Delgado
  2. is 142nd most common Dominguez
  3. is 143rd most common Robertson
  4. is 144th most common Maldonado
  5. is 145th most common Long
  6. is 146th most common Estrada
  7. is 147th most common Solis
  8. is 148th most common Jenkins
  9. is 149th most common Vargas

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Long

James, John, Robert, David, William, Michael, Charles, Mary, Thomas, Jerry

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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