Yõung

surname · Latin script

Yõung is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 484,447 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010, which ranks it 31st. 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”). Yõung is also written యంగ in Telugu and იანგი in Georgian.

  • VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 236(measured from records)
  • NZNew Zealand≈1 in 540
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 560

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yõung itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

484,447 people, 2010

#174 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames, spellings grouped

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
650 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 236 (inferred from the name graph)

St. Vincent & Grenadines

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Yõung in other scripts: Telugu and Georgian

(measured from records)
YõungLatin(measured from records)
యంగYõung in Telugu(measured from records)
იანგიYõung in Georgian(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 3 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)
Derivation of Yõung: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Yõung
  1. Middle Englishyong(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishġeong(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*jung(measured from records)
  4. Proto-Germanic*jungaz(measured from records)
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós(measured from records)
  6. 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”).

Cited for this meaning 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 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Yõung is found

(measured from records)

Yõung 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.

Where Yõung is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#30484,4471 in 687484KYoung650
GB United Kingdom#31≈120,000 est.≈1 in 56018Young368
CA Canada#20≈68,000 est.≈1 in 609—Young315
AU Australia#21≈48,000 est.≈1 in 5661Young308
PH Philippines#952≈25,000 est.≈1 in 4.6K—Young120
NZ New Zealand#21≈9,800 est.≈1 in 540—Young170
VC St. Vincent & Grenadines—4301 in 236430—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). 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

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Yõung under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Yõung 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.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Yõung?
In the United States, the national register counted about 484 thousand people named Yõung, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled young. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Yõung most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yõung 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 Yõung?
In the United States, the national register counted 484,447 people named Yõung in 2010, about 1 in 687 residents.
How common is Yõung compared with other names?
In the United States, Yõung is the 30th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Yõung” — ranked 31st in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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