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Langston
Say it: LANG-stun
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
- 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
Used by
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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