LANGSTON  

Gender: M
Origin: English
Meaning: "tall man's town"

Great African- American writer Langston Hughes puts this one on the map; actor Laurence Fishburne adopted it for his son.

Nicknames & Variations:
Langsdon, Langton, Langsden

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