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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French and Dutch : variant of Long 1.
  • French (Longé) : apparently a derivative of Old French longe ‘(leather) thong’, used in a transferred sense as a topographic name for someone who lived on a long, narrow stretch of terrain.

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