When Sidney Long was born in 1894, in Douglas, Oregon, United States, his father, Samuel Gill Long, was 44 and his mother, Alice Jane Bradford, was 28. He lived in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1900.
English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long, tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus). Compare Dulong and Lelong .
Irish (Ulster and Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan ).
German: variant of Lang ‘long’ and, in North America, also an altered form (translation into English) of this.
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