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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. [4]
Yong (雍) is a Chinese surname. [2] It is Romanized as Yung in Wade-Giles, Iong in Min Nan and Yung in Cantonese. [3] According to a 2013 study, it was the 339th most common name in China; it was shared by 139,000 people, or 0.01% of the population, being most popular in Sichuan. [4]
Additionally, Young can be a variant of the French surnames Dion or Guyon. In some cases, Young is a romanization of the Chinese surname Yang (杨; 楊). It may also be a rare romanization of the Korean surnames Yong (용; 龍) or Yeong (영; 永/榮/影), though in Korean names, Young is more commonly part of a given name rather than a surname ...
A 2010 study by Baiju Shah & al data-mined the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario for a particularly Chinese-Canadian name list. Ignoring potentially non-Chinese spellings such as Lee (49,898 total), [24]: Table 1 they found that the most common Chinese names in Ontario were: [24]
Chinese women generally retain their maiden name and use their name unchanged after marriage, but in modern times in some communities, some women may choose to attach their husband's surname to the front. [21] Chinese surname is patrilinear where the father's surname is passed on to his children, but more recently some people have opted to use ...
Surnames were largely introduced to Thai culture only by the 1913 Surname Act. [16] The law does not allow one to create any surname that is duplicated with any existing surnames. [ 17 ] Under Thai law, only one family can create any given surname: any two people of the same surname must be related, and it is very rare for two people to share ...
Yu is the pinyin romanisation of several Chinese family names.However, in the Wade–Giles romanisation system, Yu is equivalent to You in pinyin. "Yu" may represent many different Chinese characters, including 余, 于, 由, 魚 (鱼), 漁(渔), 楀, 俞(兪), 喻 (this character is 35th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem), 於, 遇, 虞, 郁, 尉, 禹, 游, 尤, 庾, 娛(娱), and 茹 ...
Chinese names are personal names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world. Sometimes the same set of Chinese characters could be chosen as a Chinese name, a Hong Kong name, a Japanese name, a Korean name, a Malaysian Chinese name, or a Vietnamese name, but they would be spelled differently due to their varying historical pronunciation of Chinese characters.