Family name origins & meanings
- English : nickname for the taller of two men with the same name, from Old English leng(ra) ‘longer’, ‘taller’, comparative of lang (see Lang).
- German : variant of Lang.
- Chinese :
from an ancient official title, Lingguan, denoting a court official in charge of music. The character for Ling is written similarly to that for Leng (
), and the surname evolved to the latter form. - Cambodian : unexplained.