The Long surname (隆)
Long (隆, Lóng) is about 0.1 million people in mainland China (2013), the 357th most common surname; the province with the most Longs is Hunan.
How do you pronounce the surname 隆?
As a surname, 隆 is pronounced Lóng in Mandarin (written Long without tone marks).
How is Long written in Chinese?
It is written 隆 in both simplified and traditional Chinese.
How common is the Long surname?
According to Yuan Yida and Qiu Jiaru's study of the 400 most common Chinese surnames (2013), about 0.1 million people in mainland China are named Long — 0.0090% of the population, ranking 357th.
Where in China is the Long surname most common?
According to the same 2013 study, the province with the most people named Long is Hunan.
Is Long in the Hundred Family Surnames?
Yes — 隆 is number 368 in the Hundred Family Surnames (Baijiaxing), a Song-dynasty primer. Its order reflects the rhyme of the text, not population.
What are the other English spellings of Long?
The same Chinese surname is spelled differently by region and era — check all of them when searching immigration or overseas records:
- Hanyu Pinyin (Mainland China): Long
- Wade–Giles (Taiwan, older usage): Lung
- Cantonese (Hong Kong, overseas): Jyutping lung4
- Vietnamese: Long
How do I build a Long family tree?
Start with your own branch: record the ancestors you are sure of, then parents, siblings and descendants, generation by generation, with dates, spouses, migrations and burial places. Then invite relatives to fill in their own branches.
The KinTraces genealogy workbench lets a family build a Long genealogy together online — relatives claim their own entries, adoptions and dual heirship are recorded on both sides, every change is logged, and the tree can be printed as a traditional Chinese genealogy (vertical register, Su or Ou style, pagoda chart) or a Western Register / Pedigree, or exported as GEDCOM.
What are Long generation names (zibei)?
Many Chinese lineages share a generation poem: each generation takes one character from it in their given names, so cousins of the same generation share a character. Different Long branches use different poems — there can be dozens for one surname — so a poem from another branch cannot simply be borrowed.
The most reliable source is your branch's own genealogy; otherwise, collect names from elders, gravestones and ancestral halls, look for the shared character in each generation, and compare with genealogies from the same ancestral place.
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Sources: 2013 population figures, ranks and top provinces from Yuan Yida and Qiu Jiaru, The 400 Most Common Chinese Surnames (2013), as compiled in the English Wikipedia article "List of common Chinese surnames" (CC BY-SA 4.0); 2020 ranks from the Ministry of Public Security's 2020 national name report; Baijiaxing order from the Wikisource text.