Youñg
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Youñg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 579(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 594
- AUAustralia≈1 in 612
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #174 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 650 (measured from records)
- 1 in 236 (inferred from the name graph)
484,447 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Young in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
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)
- Middle Englishyong(measured from records)
- Old Englishġeong(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*jung(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*jungaz(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European root*h₂yuh₁en-“young”(measured from records)
Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”).
Sources 5
- Scottish Surnames
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Youñg 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #30 | 484,447 | 1 in 687 | 484K | Young | 650 |
| GB United Kingdom | #31 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 594 | 18 | Young | 368 |
| CA Canada | #20 | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 669 | — | Young | 315 |
| IT Italy | #35 | ≈43,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Young | 81 |
| AU Australia | #21 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 612 | 1 | Young | 308 |
| NZ New Zealand | #21 | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 579 | — | Young | 170 |
| IS Iceland | #66 | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 615 | 5 | Young | 12 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 430 | 1 in 236 | 430 | — | 10 |
484,447 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 Youñg mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Middle English yong, yonge, from Old English ġeong, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós, from *h₂yuh₁en- (“young”). Recorded by Scottish Surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Youñg have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 484 thousand people named Youñg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled young.
- Where is Youñg most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Youñg is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 236 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Youñg?
- In the United States, the national register counted 484,447 people named Youñg in 2010, about 1 in 687 residents.
- How common is Youñg compared with other names?
- In the United States, Youñg is the 30th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/you%C3%B1gThe 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, “Youñg” — the 30th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.