Long

in the US

There are 175,894 people with the last name "Long" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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  1. is 76th most common Hughes
  2. is 77th most common Price
  3. is 78th most common Ross
  4. is 79th most common Rivera
  5. is 80th most common Long
  6. is 81st most common Flores
  7. is 82nd most common Myers
  8. is 83rd most common Foster
  9. is 84th most common Nguyen

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Long

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



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 (22572205 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 (18791849 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 (722481 BC). The other source is the Xiongnu nationality, a non-Han Chinese people.

Chinese 郎: variant of Lang.

Cambodian: unexplained.


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