Yûng
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yûng is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Hokkien 楊／杨 (iông).
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 6.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 27K
- USUnited States1 in 156K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 347 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yung in US United States, MY Malaysia, NG Nigeria and 2 more and Yüñg in GH Ghana.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Hokkien 楊／杨 (iông).
Sources 1
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yûng counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Yung | 18 |
| MY Malaysia | #862 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Yung | 67 |
| HK Hong Kong | #301 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Yung | 112 |
| US United States | — | 2,139 | 1 in 156K | 4.3K | Yung | 347 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Yüñg | 17 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Yung | 54 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yûng mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hokkien 楊／杨 (iông). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Yûng a male or female name?
- Yûng is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Yûng have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.8 thousand people named Yûng in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yung.
- How common is the name Yûng?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,139 people named Yûng in 2020, about 1 in 156 thousand residents.
- How common is Yûng compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Yûng is the 301st most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Yûng?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/y%C3%BBngThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yûng” — the 301st most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.