Langan

Langan is the 7,099th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,545 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 65,800.

By the numbers

People: 4,545
Rank: 7,099th
How common: 1 in 65,800
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Origin Irish

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Longáin (“descendant of Longán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive of long (“tall”) or long (“ship”), thus a nickname for a seafarer.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Langan described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.5%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%

Surnames like Langan

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.