as a Last Name
- 527,199
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Young
Meaning & Origins
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: distinguishing name (Middle English yunge, yonge ‘young’), for the younger of two bearers of the same personal name, usually distinguishing a younger brother or a son. In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge.
| 30th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 527,199
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Young per capita
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