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Long

#13,148 in 2025Boys' name

Dragon or prosperous, abundant

Long has been given to 1,909 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #13,148 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 133 recorded.

Babies named Long, 2025

1 in 663,000

Long over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Long: meaning, origin, and history

Dragon or prosperous, abundant

Chinese

What Long means

Long means “dragon or prosperous, abundant”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Long is used in Chinese and Vietnamese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /lʊŋ/ and /lawŋ͡m˧˧/ for Long.

Origin, language, and formation

Long is used in Vietnamese. Its origins include Chinese.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Vietnamese, Long is pronounced [lawŋ͡m˧˧].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,909 boys were recorded with the name Long between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 133 in 1988; its best national rank was #820 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,864 in 2020 to #13,148 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,919 in 2015 to #13,148 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Long?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,148
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Long sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Long. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Longs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Long was born before 1991 — so the typical Long is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
38.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
24.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,909
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 38.3% of all recorded uses (731).

Is Long rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−9,398
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,284
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,229
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.42×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
3.8%
Peak was 1988 (133)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
81.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#820
1988

Spellings of Long

Long is not the most common spelling — Tony is, with 23.1% against Long's 0.18%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Long is used

Across 1910–2025, Long was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 68,487 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 100,000
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Massachusetts1 in —
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in —
  7. 7Oregon1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Long has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Long around the world

Where Long ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2024
    #2,444
    in 2024
  • France
    1956–2000
    #2,293
    in 2000
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #2,536
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1982–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Long by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,148
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,284
Best rank ever
#820
1988
Peak year
1988
133 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,909
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Long

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Long

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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