Long
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 7 babies a year in the US.
Long by the numbers
Long was given to 7 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 133 babies in 1988, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Long
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Long. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Names about as common as Long
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