How common is the surname Longest?

1,132 people in the United States had the surname Longest in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 272,743 Americans. It ranked 22,663rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Longest?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Longest identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Longest getting more or less common?

More common. 1,098 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,132 in 2010, up 3.1%.

The surname Longest

A surname, carried by 1,132 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex L522

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Longest is more common than 86% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,132 people named Longest in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 272,743 Americans. That is up 3.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,098.

#22,663

rank among US surnames

1,132

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+3.1%

change since 2000 (was #22,011)

Who is named Longest

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

96% of people named Longest identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.4%
Two or more races 0.6%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Longest

Longacre

Longest has the Soundex code L522, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code L522.

Questions

How common is the surname Longest?: 1,132 people in the United States had the surname Longest in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 272,743 Americans. It ranked 22,663rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Longest?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Longest identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Longest getting more or less common?: More common. 1,098 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,132 in 2010, up 3.1%.