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Boy · Old English

Langston

Say it: LANG-stun

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Meaning

From an English place-name surname meaning 'long stone'.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

Its wave through time

Popular now

In the United States

010203018801900192019401960198020002020Peak 2016per 100,000 babies of that sex
  • 6,209 babies given this name since 1912
  • At its height in 2016, about 1 in 4,700 boys
  • 370 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. The Modern Age1880 to today

Used by

African AmericanAmerican

Famous bearers

  • Langston Hughes, poet of the Harlem Renaissance

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Where this comes from

  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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