Long
A Chinese name meaning "dragon". In Poland it barely registers: fewer than 90 people carry it, nearly all of them men, and most Poles will never meet one.
Long Pronunciation
Long is pronounced LONK (/lɔnk/).
What Long means
Where Long comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Long comes from Chinese, where the syllable lóng (龙) names the dragon. In Polish that word is smok. The dragon of Chinese tradition is no hoarder of gold in a cave. It brings rain, guards rivers, and stands as an emblem of emperors and good fortune. To be named Long is to carry that sign as a single syllable.
The name takes no diminutives and no variants. It is given whole, the same for a son or a daughter. The dragon is also one of the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac, and a child born in its year is counted lucky.
Read from a Polish class register, Long sits short between longer surnames. The teacher may not know that the child answers to smok, the oldest and most fortunate of those twelve signs.
How many people are named Long
1 in 260319 men in Poland is named Long. 87 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3777 among male names.
Long as a middle name
Long is a first name for 87 men in Poland and a middle name for another 79, a 52/48 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 806th, between Khan (79) and Russell (79).
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#804 Itzhak79
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#806 Long79
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#807 Russell79
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#808 Solomon79