Long Family History
- Long Name Meaning
- 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 : from the name of an official treasurer called Long, who lived during the reign of the model emperor Shun (2257–2205 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 (1879–1849 bc). Some descendants later simplified Yu-Long to Long and adopted it as their surname. Chinese : 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 (722–481 bc). The other source is the Xiongnu nationality, a non-Han Chinese people. Chinese : variant of Lang. Cambodian: unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,918,292 Historical Documents with Long on Ancestry
- 2,901,834 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,576,787 Census and Voter Lists
- 465,685 Military Records
- 134,563 Immigration Records
- 4,839,423 Member Trees
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Number of Long families
 1,900 - 3,798  634 - 1,899 |
 1 - 633  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Long families
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1,817 - 3,632 606 - 1,816 |
1 - 605 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Long families
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83 - 164 28 - 82 |
1 - 27 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Long census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Long census records
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- 6,429
- Confederate
- 2,528
- Union
- 3,901
from the Civil War Service Records
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