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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : habitational name, with the preposition de, denoting someone from a place named Long, of which there are examples in Cher, Dordogne, and Somme.
  • French : possibly a variant of Lelong, a nickname from long ‘tall’, ‘long’.

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