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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Possibly of English origin, a habitational name from Langwith or Nether Langwith in Nottinghamshire, so named Old Scandinavian langr ‘long’ + vath ‘ford’; or alternatively, a variant of Longworth.

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