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langan Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin ‘descendant of Longán’, a personal name probably derived from long ‘tall’, or perhaps from the homonymous long ‘ship’ (and so originally a byname for a seafarer). Sometimes Leonard is used as an equivalent.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of langan Families in the US in 1920
Number of langan families
 74-145
 25-73
 1-24
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 103 - Messages: 370
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Langans in Scranton Pa Rosellen Verrastro 0
Langans, N.D, Canada, Ireland Jodi Langan 23
find my family Derek Langan 8
Aussie Langan's Jarrod Langan 3
Briget Langan louissackman 0
Langans in Liverpool M Keith Abel 1
Marshall, MO Carol 4
Mary Langan was conformation sponsor in Scranton, PA 1920 patmontero25 0
Fredirick Hevey Langan Patricia Hevey Cook 4
LANGAN/KENNELLY/IRELAND/NEBRASKA cris 3
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