Long
Long is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 29 births. Its best rank was 822nd, in 1988.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 290.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1988133 births
- Best rank
- #822in 1988
- Since 1975
- 1,903people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,903 boys have been named Long in the United States since 1975, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1988, with 133 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 1980s alone account for 38%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1988, its biggest year
Long was the 822nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1988 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1988.
Names that rose and fell with Long
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Huypeak 1982
- Justinpeak 1988
- Phongpeak 1984
- Thanhpeak 1982
- Joshuapeak 1989
- Tampeak 1982
- Tyrelpeak 1981
- Tramainepeak 1990
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.