Young (Korean name)


Young, also spelled Yeong, or Yong, Yung, is an uncommon Korean surname, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. As given name meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 44 hanja with the reading "young" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.

Family name

As a Korean family name, Young can be written with three different hanja, indicating different lineages. According to the 2000 South Korean Census, a total of 259 people had these family names.

Hanja and meaning

There are 34 hanja with this reading, and variant forms of three of those, on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in personal names; they are:
  1. : "eternal"
  2. : "flower petals"
  3. *: "heroic"
  4. : "welcome"
  5. : "flourishing"
  6. *
  7. : "swim"
  8. : "recite poetry"
  9. : "manage"
  10. : "shadow", "reflection"
  11. : "shine"
  12. *: "indistinct"
  13. *
  14. : "clear water"
  15. : "shine"
  16. : "shining jade"
  17. : "lustrous"
  18. : "bubbling"
  19. *
  20. : "full"
  21. : "pillar"
  22. : "bell sound"
  23. : "baby"
  24. : "grain"
  25. : "gemstone'
  26. : "recite poetry"
  27. : "tomb"
  28. : "steep"
  29. : Ying River in Anhui, China
  30. : "sea"
  31. : "chinstrap"
  32. : "sleet"
  33. : "win"
  34. : "protect"
  35. : a species of Asiatic salamander
  36. : "moonlight"
  37. : "flow smoothly"
  38. : "look ahead"
  39. : a species of tree

    People

Koreans with the single-syllable given name Young include:
Names containing this element were popular for newborn boys in South Korea from the 1940s through the late 1960s. Korean names which begin with this element include:
Korean names which end with this element include: