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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 (listed by their spelling in Pinyin, which reflects the Mandarin pronunciation):

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 (7,208th-most-common) 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

  • Yung Wing (; 1828–1912), first Chinese graduate of an American university
  • Nikolay Yung (; 1855–1905), Imperial Russian Navy officer
  • Yung Fung-shee (; 1900–1972), Hong Kong philanthropist
  • Victor Sen Yung (; 1915–1980), American character actor
  • Sanford Yung (; 1927–2013), Hong Kong accountant
  • Bill Yung (born 1934), American football coach
  • Larry Yung (; born 1942), Chinese businessman
  • Judy Yung (1946–2020), American sociologist
  • Richard Yung (born 1947), French politician
  • Sergey Yung (; born 1955), Russian race walker
  • Barbara Yung (; 1959–1985), Hong Kong actress
  • Moti Yung (born 1959), cryptographer at Google
  • Yung Yim King (born 1959), Hong Kong fencer
  • Yvonne Yung (; born 1968), Beijing-born Hong Kong actress
  • Frances Yung (; born 1972), Chinese businesswoman
  • Eunice Yung (; born 1977), Hong Kong barrister and politician
  • Joey Yung (; born 1980), Hong Kong singer
  • Élodie Yung (born 1981), French actress
  • Yung Pi-hock (), Taiwanese basketball player who represented the Republic of China at the 1956 Olympics
  • Terence Yung (), Hong Kong-born American classical pianist
  • Yuk L. Yung (), professor at the California Institute of Technology

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

  • Mike Yung, stage name of Michael Young (born 1959), American singer
  • Su Yung, ring name of Vannarah Riggs (born 1989), American professional wrestler
  • Yukio Yung, stage name of Terry Burrows, English musician

References