- 6,619
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Furlong
Meaning & Origins
English and Irish: apparently a topographic name from Middle English furlong ‘length of a field’ (from Old English furh ‘furrow’ + lang ‘long’), the technical term for the block of strips owned by several different persons which formed the unit of cultivation in the medieval open-field system of farming, or a habitational name from a minor place named with this word, such as Furlong in Devon or Shropshire. The surname is now chiefly common in Ireland, where a family of this name settled at the end of the 13th century.
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- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 6,619
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Kentucky
- has the most people named Furlong per capita
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