Family name origins & meanings
- English : topographic name from Middle English lang, long ‘long’ + strete ‘road’.
- Translation of Dutch Langestraet, cognate with 1.
- The confederate general James Longstreet (1821–1904), was born in SC, came from an old Dutch family in New Netherland with the name Langestraet; he was the nephew of Augustus B. Longstreet, a Methodist clergyman born in Augusta, GA, in 1790.