Name

Name YOUNG

Between 1880 and 2022 there were 1,145 births of Young in the countries below, which represents an average of 8 births of children bearing the first name Young per year on average throughout this period.
On the last available year for each country, we count 4 births.

Other languages :
En Français

Prénom Young
In Italiano

Nome Young

Information about the first name Young

The first name Young has been assigned to:

69.26% to boys
30.74% to girls

The country where the first name Young is the most common is:

United State of America

This first name is on trend: Male

This first name has 5 letters including 3 vowels and 2 consonants

Anagrams of the first name Young

An anagram is a word that contains the same letters of another word. Here is the list of first names which are an anagram of Young : Gouny, Guyon

Young in Japanese ^*

Romaji	yangu
Katakana	ヤング
Hiragana	やんぐ
* This is a phonetic conversion, not a translation.
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Young in binary language

01111001 01101111 01110101 01101110 01100111

Origin and meaning of name Young

English

Etymology

As an English, Scottish, and northern Irish surname, from the adjective young, used to distinguish a younger brother or son. This sense is comparable to the surnames le Yunge, German Jong and Junk, Dutch Jong and de Jongh, French Lejeune and LaJeunesse, assimilated from Dion and Guyon.
As a Chinese surname, spelling variant of Yang.

Etymology

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”).

Anagrams

Guyon

Noun

young (plural young)
(often as if a plural noun) Offspring, especially the immature offspring of animals.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /jʌŋ/
Rhymes: -ʌŋ

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: yŭng, IPA(key): /jʌŋ/
Rhymes: -ʌŋ

Verb

young (third-person singular simple present youngs, present participle younging, simple past and past participle younged)
(informal or demography) To become or seem to become younger.
(informal or demography) To cause to appear younger.
(geology) To exhibit younging.

Adjective (Antonyms)

(born not long ago): old, aged, grown up, senior, youthless, elderly
(having qualities of a young person): aged, old, youthless, mature, elderly
(of or belonging to the early part of life): senior, mature, elderly
(inexperienced): mature, experienced, veteran

Adjective (Related terms)

youth

Adjective (Synonyms)

(born not long ago): youthful, junior; see also Thesaurus:young
(having qualities of a young person): youthful, juvenile
(of or belonging to the early part of life): juvenile
(inexperienced): underdeveloped, undeveloped, immature

Proper noun (Statistics)

According to the 2010 United States Census, Young is the 32nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 484,447 individuals. Young is most common among White (66.3%) and Black/African American (24.7%) individuals.

Middle English

Adjective

young
Alternative form of yong

Popularity of the name Young

Number of YOUNG births per year

Popularity of the name Young

Total births of Young by country

		Births with the first name Young
Country		Boys Girls
	United State of America 1880 - 2022	588 190
	Brazil 1930 - 2022	100 100
	Switzerland 1909 - 2021	23 43
	France 1900 - 2022	26 0
	Germany 2000 - 2022	14 9
	United Kingdom 1996 - 2021	15 0
	Chili 2010 - 2021	6 3
	Argentina 1922 - 2015	7 0
	Alberta 1980 - 2022	4 2
	Quebec 1980 - 2022	4 2
	Ontario 1913 - 2019	5 0
	Australia 1930 - 2022	1 1
	Denmark 1985 - 2022	0 2