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longenecker Name Meaning and History

Altered spelling of Swiss German Langenecker, a habitational name for someone from any of several places called Langeneck, from Old High German lang ‘long’ + egga ‘corner’.

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Distribution of longenecker Families in the US in 1840
Number of longenecker families
 13-24
 5-12
 1-4
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1840 US Federal Census records

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