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langhorne Name Meaning and History

  1. Northern English: probably a habitational name from a minor place in Soulby, Cumbria, called Longthorn, from Old English lang ‘long’ + horn ‘projecting headland’, or a topographic name with the same meaning.
  2. English: nickname from Middle English lang, long ‘long’ + horn ‘horn’, with various possible applications; it could have denoted a horn blower or possibly a cuckhold, or it may have referred to some physical characteristic; there is some suggestion that horn in some names may mean ‘head’ or otherwise ‘phallus’.
  3. Danish: habitational name from Langhorn.
  4. Dutch: nickname for someone with long ears.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of langhorne Families in the US in 1920
Number of langhorne families
 15-28
 6-14		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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LANGHORNE, CARY DeVALL; Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient MEXICAN CAMPAIGN jasche 0
Langhornes (Langhorns) of Darlington malcolm1957 4
Langhorne / Hutter Susan 0
The Langhorne Family Deanna Taliaferro/Garris 2
Harry B. Langhorne (obit. Sept. 16, 1937) Rosemary Southward 0
James K. and Fannie Hill Langhorne of Portsmouth VA GingerLANE43 0
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