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CLAN YOUNG
YOUNG SURNAME HISTORY
The following surnames are family names in their own right & have the same meaning/pronounciation (or close to it) as the modern surname of "YOUNG".
Deshong, Deyoung, Geong, Jeong, Jonker Juenger June, Jung, Jungbauer, Jungblud, Jungblut, Jungbluth, Junge, Jungg, Jungge, Jungher, Jungling, Junker, Juvenis, Og, Ogg, Oag, Tarno,Yeong, Yhong, Yhonge, Yhonger, Yhung, Yhunge, Yhunger, Yong, Yonge, Young, Younge, Younger, Youngson, Yowng, Ywng, Yung, Zeung, Zhong, Zong, Zoong, Zoonge, Zoonger & Zowng.
These surnames can be found through out history in the ANGLO, CELTIC, FRENCH, GAELIC, GERMANIC/BAVARIAN, INDO/CHINESE/KOREAN, NORSE & SAXON culture`s.
{there are more than likely more, so I`m open for amendments/correction`s}
SURNAME HISTORY
“Young”
is from the old English word "Yong"/Yung"/“Yeong”/“Jeong”/”Geong”, meaning the same as Old
French "Jeune”/”Juvenis", Germanic “Jung”, or the Gaelic "Og”/”Oag”/”Ogg"
Surnames were
originally given spontaneously to distinguish one person from another with the
same Christian name. Surnames can be grouped into four categories. The first
type referred to a person's occupation (i.e.: Carpenter, Miller, Fisher etc.).
The second type referred to the place where a
person lived or was from. It could be the country (i.e. Scott), town, county,
parish, home (all British estates, farms and older homes are named) or even by
the wood, brook or mill. The name Douglas for example, comes from the Douglas
River in southwest Scotland. It means dark water, since the river had dark
water.
The third type designated a relationship
between the bearer and another person, usually his or her father. At first this
surname would last only one generation. Eventually however, by the 1300's it
did become hereditary. The O', Mac, Mc and son all mean "son of". O'
was common in Ireland, Mac (and Mc, a misspelling of Mac) was more common in
the Scottish Highlands. The suffix "son", as in Davidson, Thompson, etc.,
was in common use in the Anglo culture.
“The surname
Young could fit this category. If a father and son had the same Christian name,
the son would often be called by the surname Young/Younger to distinguish him
from his father. The son who was his father's designated heir also used Young/Younger”.
The fourth type is a nickname referring to
something distinguishing about the person. For example if two people in a
village had the same Christian name, the one who was younger could have
received the nickname "Young"/”Younger and the older one
"Elder".
Surnames designating relationships are the
most common type in Scotland.
After the marriage of King
Malcolm III to the Saxon Princess Margaret around 1070, Anglo culture and
speech became fashionable in the Lowland areas of Scotland, and thus, the use
of other forms of the name Young, such as Og, would have decreased. Often
people moving into a new area would adopt local names as well. There is a
story, for example, of a man named Ljungwaldh. He moved to Scotland from
Stockholm and the English-speaking natives had difficulty pronouncing his name.
He eventually changed it to Youngwall. At least one family of Gypsies in
Scotland was known to have adopted the surname Young to avoid bringing undue
attention to themselves. Currently, Young is the 15th most common name in all
Scotland and around the Forth and the Clyde it is the 13th most common name.
There are more Young`s per capita in Edinburgh than any other city in the
world, where one out of every 185 people bears this proud surname. Glasgow of
course is a close second. Only two surnames that you would immediately
recognize as Scottish are more common than Young and these are Campbell and
MacDonald. The three most common surnames in Scotland for instance are Smith,
Brown and Reid.
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