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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized spelling of German Langhaar, a nickname for a man with long hair.
  • Johann Wilhelm Langhaar came to Wantage, NJ, in 1749 with his family from Puderbach, in Neuwied, Rhineland, Germany.

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