Long
Long was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,148 among boys’ names; 1,909 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,830 Americans named Long and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 26 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Long by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Long mean?
Wiktionary, Vietnamese section
Long is “a unisex given name from Chinese”
Sino-Vietnamese word from 龍 or 隆.
[lawŋ͡m˧˧]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Vietnamese section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Long?
#13,148 among boys’ names, 2025
Long fell from #6,919 in 2015 to #13,148 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 2.9 per million.
133 babies in 1988, the peak
Long peaked in 1988, when 133 boys were given it, #820 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,148 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 30 | #3,750 | 17.4 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,038 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,733 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,592 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,864 | 7.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,312 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,353 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,564 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,919 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 17 | #5,390 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,917 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 84 | #1,779 | 44.3 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,852 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,922 | 5.2 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,523 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,831 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,587 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,443 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,275 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,369 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,079 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,513 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 37 | #2,593 | 19.0 |
| 2000 | 101 | #1,283 | 51.4 |
| 1999 | 37 | #2,437 | 19.3 |
| 1998 | 25 | #3,152 | 13.1 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,078 | 22.8 |
| 1996 | 36 | #2,278 | 19.0 |
| 1995 | 53 | #1,691 | 27.8 |
| 1994 | 51 | #1,740 | 26.4 |
| 1993 | 66 | #1,436 | 33.7 |
| 1992 | 59 | #1,515 | 29.5 |
| 1991 | 48 | #1,708 | 23.8 |
| 1990 | 52 | #1,596 | 25.3 |
| 1989 | 47 | #1,665 | 23.5 |
| 1988 | 133 | #820 | 69.5 |
| 1987 | 55 | #1,352 | 29.5 |
| 1986 | 68 | #1,147 | 36.9 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,250 | 31.9 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,119 | 36.6 |
| 1983 | 80 | #991 | 44.6 |
| 1982 | 85 | #979 | 46.8 |
| 1981 | 71 | #1,080 | 39.6 |
| 1980 | 67 | #1,108 | 37.6 |
| 1979 | 32 | #1,771 | 18.6 |
| 1978 | 26 | #1,946 | 15.8 |
| 1977 | 30 | #1,764 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,299 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,348 | 7.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Long a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Long has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Long: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Long, and how old are they?
1,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,909 Americans ever recorded as Long. The median Long alive today is 35 years old; half are between 26 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 11,343 people named Long (579 women and girls, 10,764 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,784 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 195 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 975 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 506 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 151 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Long born?
The states with the most babies named Long are California, Texas and Louisiana, with 90% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 578 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Texas | 190 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 39 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 17 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Massachusetts | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 13 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oregon | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Long is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Long is most over-represented in California: since 1975 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Long with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Long
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Long and names like it
- Compare Long and HuyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLong peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Long since 1910.
- Chinese namesWiktionary’s origin for Long: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Long.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Long alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.