# Langhorne (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/langhorne/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Middle English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,165 |
| US rank (2010) | 22,173 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 265,018 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.9% (1,100 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Middle English lang (“long”) + horn (“horn”), a nickname for a horn blower or possibly a cuckhold, or it may have referred to some physical characteristic. It could also be a variant of Langthorne, a habitational surname.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Langhorne in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 39% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 56% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.1% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Langhorne in the United States.

## People named Langhorne

- Crystal Langhorne, American basketball player (born 1986)
- Bruce Langhorne, American musician
- Mark Twain, American author and humorist (1835–1910)

## Similar surnames

Langer, Langworthy, Longshore, Longoria, Linker, Lingerfelt, Longworth, Linger, Lenker, Lunger.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.