Girl name origins & meanings
- Scandinavian : Tall one
Boy name origins & meanings
- Old English : Long
- German : A tall man
- English : Long hill
- English : Long-suffering
Boy name variations
How Popular Is The Name Lang
Family name origins & meanings
- Scottish, English, Dutch, German, Danish, Swedish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a tall person, from Older Scots, Middle English, Middle Dutch, Middle German, and Danish lang ‘long’, Swedish lång.
- Hungarian : from láng ‘flame’, hence probably a nickname for a passionate person, or a man with a fighting spirit. Alternatively it may be an indirect occupational name for a smith or someone who worked with fire.
- Chinese :
from the name of a place called
Lang City in the state of Lu, founded during the Spring and Autumn
period (722–481 bc) by a grandson of the ruler. His
descendants lived there and adopted Lang as their surname. - Vietnamese (Lãng) : unexplained.