Given name & surname
Yung
“one who is prosperous”
Yung is a variant of Young. One Korean interpretation is “one who is prosperous.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yung is a variant of Young. One Korean interpretation is “one who is prosperous.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Yung is a variant of Young. An origin associated with Young is Korean.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yung through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1985
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 1985. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,139 as a first name in 2020; 4,191 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yung’s family of names
In Filipino usage, Yung as a surname shares an earlier linguistic root with Yang. Yung has a related form in Young. In English usage, Yung has a related form in Dung.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 13
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Yongequivalent
- Dzungequivalent
- Xiongequivalent
- Yangdoublet · Tagalog
- Dũngequivalent
- Rongequivalent
- 榮equivalent
- 熊equivalent
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People named Yung
- Yeonsangun of Joseon10th King of Korean Joseon Dynasty (1476-1506)
- Buyeo YungBaekje prince (615-682)
- Wang RyungKorean local strongman900–897
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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