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The langley Surname

langley Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from any of the numerous places named with Old English lang ‘long’ + leah ‘wood’, ‘glade’; or a topographic name with the same meaning.
  2. English: from the Old Norse female personal name Langlíf, composed of the elements lang ‘long’ + líf ‘life’.
  3. Americanized spelling of French Langlais.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The langley name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the langley family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of langley Families in the US in 1920
Number of langley families
 104-205
 35-103		 1-34
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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