Long

Long is the 100th most common surname in the United States, shared by 223,485 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 1,337.

By the numbers

People: 223,485
Rank: 100th
How common: 1 in 1,337
Per 100,000: 74.8

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.6%
Black, not Hispanic 11.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.3%

Notable people called Long

Justin Long (born 1978)American actor
Shane Long (born 1987)Irish association football player
Ma Long (born 1988)Chinese table tennis player
Nia Long (born 1970)American actress
Gia Long (1762–1820)founder and 1st emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam (r. 1802-04)
Huey Long (1893–1935)American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United States Senator
Shelley Long (born 1949)American actress and comedian
George W. De Long (1844–1881)American polar explorer

People named Long with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Long

Also a first name

Long has been given to 1,909 American babies as a first name since 1975, peaking in 1988. See it as a given name.

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.