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.
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1850–1936 Male
1866–1953 Female
1878– Male
1885–1965 Female
1888–1975 Female
1890– Female
1894– Male
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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