Longden

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Person from Longden, the name of various places in England (‘long valley’)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Longden is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.

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  • GBUnited Kingdom
  • AUAustralia
  • USUnited States

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Person from Longden, the name of various places in England (‘long valley’).

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

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Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Longden is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, habitational name from any of various places, for example Longden, the Middle English form that underlies Longdendale in Cheshire and Derbyshire. This is a compound of Old English lang, long ‘long’ + denu ‘valley’. A place called Longden in Shropshire, however, has the same origin as Langdon, so there has clearly been some confusion between the two forms.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In English, places, for example Longden, the ME form that underlies Longdendale in Ches. and Derbys. This is a cpd of OE long, long Long + denu valley (see Dean i). A place called Longden in Shrops., however, has the same origin as Langdon, so there has clearly been some confusion be¬ tween the two forms. Longdon see Langdon

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Henry Errington Longden, b. 1819James Robert Longden, b. 1827Fred Longden, b. 1889Gilbert Longden, b. 1902Johnny Longden, b. 1907Vance Longden, b. 1930Colin Longden, b. 1933Paul Longden, b. 1962Sean Longden, b. 1965

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Longden
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010487#44,193
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020435#51,662
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000419#47,575
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—14#101,339
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20246#89,778
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520254#621
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#359,747
GB United KingdomA Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988)———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Longden mean, and where does it come from?
Person from Longden, the name of various places in England (‘long valley’). Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
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Longden is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Longden”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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