How common is the surname Langhorne?

1,165 people in the United States had the surname Langhorne in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 265,018 Americans. It ranked 22,173rd of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Langhorne?

Crystal Langhorne, American basketball player (born 1986), followed by Bruce Langhorne.

Where is the surname Langhorne most common?

Wikidata records people named Langhorne in the United States.

Is the surname Langhorne getting more or less common?

More common. 1,100 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,165 in 2010, up 5.9%.

The surname Langhorne

An English place surname, carried by 1,165 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L526

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Langhorne is more common than 86.3% of them.

Origin

English origin

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.

Langhorne is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,165 people named Langhorne in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 265,018 Americans. That is up 5.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,100.

#22,173

rank among US surnames

1,165

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+5.9%

change since 2000 (was #21,981)

Who is named Langhorne

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

56% of people named Langhorne identified as Black (not Hispanic), 39% as white (not Hispanic) and 2.3% as two or more races.

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

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Famous Langhornes

3 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Crystal Langhorne
American basketball player (born 1986)
Bruce Langhorne
American musician, 1938–2017
Mark Twain
American author and humorist (1835–1910)

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Langhorne

Langhorne has the Soundex code L526, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L526.

Other English surnames

All 1,446 English surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Langhorne come from?: 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.
How common is the surname Langhorne?: 1,165 people in the United States had the surname Langhorne in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 265,018 Americans. It ranked 22,173rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Langhorne?: In the 2010 Census, 56% of people named Langhorne identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 39% as white (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Langhorne?: Crystal Langhorne, American basketball player (born 1986), followed by Bruce Langhorne.
Where is the surname Langhorne most common?: Wikidata records people named Langhorne in the United States.
What type of surname is Langhorne?: Langhorne is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
Is the surname Langhorne getting more or less common?: More common. 1,100 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,165 in 2010, up 5.9%.