Yung (surname)


Yung is a surname in various cultures.

Origins

Yung may be a spelling of a number of Chinese surnames based on their pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese, including the below surnames :
Yung is also a variant spelling of the English and Scottish surname Young. These surnames originated from the Middle English word.
Yung may also originate from Cyrillic transcription of the German surname Jung, which can be found among the descendants of Germans in the former Soviet Union.

Statistics

According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 338 people on the island of Great Britain and twelve on the island of Ireland with the surname Yung as of 2011. There had been twelve people with the surname Yung in Great Britain in 1881.
The 2010 United States Census found 4,218 people with the surname Yung, making it the 7,849th-most-common name in the country. This represented a decrease from 4,272 in the 2000 census. In both censuses, about three-quarters of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and two-tenths as White.

People

People with a stage name that uses the surname Yung include: