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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : topographic name for someone who lived by an extensive (Middle English long ‘long’) piece of open country or pastureland (feld(e)). There is a place so named in Kent (from Old English lang + feld), recorded from the 10th century, and there are several in West Yorkshire, where the surname is common. Two places now called Longville in Shropshire also have this origin.

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