where did my last name come from?

Question

my last name is LUNG.

Answer 1

Depends. What's your ethnicity? There's an Old English version, and a Chinese version.

If you're white or black, it would come from:

Old English long, lang, meaning long or tall, and was a nickname for a tall person

Irish, anglicized Gaelic name O Longain, meaning "descendant of Langan", from the word long, meaning tall or ship, which would make it either a nickname for a tall person, or an occupational name for a seafarer.

It could also come from the Swedish lund, meaning grove, or the Gaelic lundd, meaning marsh, and simply have been corrupted into Lung. Like the name Lundgren is said lung-ren, the "d" disappears.

As for the Chinese, I must admit I know little about Oriental names. I believe they are normally habitational surnames, coming from an area the family lived, but I really don't know.

Answer 2

Lung
This interesting surname is of Anglo-Saxon and Irish origin, and has two possible sources, each with its own
meaning and derivation. In the Anglo-Saxon case it originated as a descriptive nickname for a tall person,
deriving from the Olde English pre 7th Century "lang", "long" meaning long or tall. As an Irish surname, it
originated as an Anglicization of the Gaelic "O'Longain", composed of the elements "O", male descendant of,
plus "Longain" a personal name probably derived from "long", tall (as above), or possibly from the homonymous
"long", a ship (and so originally a byname for a seafarer). The surname is first recorded in the latter half
of the 10th Century (see below), and other early recordings include: Leofwine Lange, who was noted in the 1070
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Berard Long, who appeared in the Feudal Documents from the Abbey of Bury St.
Edmunds, Suffolk (1121 - 1148). In the modern idiom the surname has many variant spellings including Lang,
Lange, Long and Lung. One of the earliest settlers in the New World was Henry Long, aged 21 yrs., who departed
from the port of London aboard the "Hopewell", bound for the Barbados, in February 1634. The first recorded
spelling of the family name is shown to be that of
Aetheric thes Langa, which was dated
972, in "Old English Bynames", Northamptonshire, during the reign of
King Edgar of England, 959 - 975.

Answer 3

The Lung Family Crest and surname information:

The name Lung comes from the ancient Anglo-Saxon culture of Britian. It is a very old name according to etymologists. The name occurs in old english charters as early as 972 AD. The name means "long" or "tall", and was at first a nicknamke.

The name was first found in Northumberland where they held a family seat from ancient times.

It lists first settlers also.

http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/lung-family-crest.htm?a=54323-224

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Answer 4

Korea.

Answer 5

from your fathers side.his last name came from a long ways back.

Answer 6

China or Vietnam. (former Indo-China region)

Answer 7

from your dad