Young, also spelled Yeong, Yong, or Yung, is an uncommon Korean surname, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. As given name meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 43 hanja with the reading yeong on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names, as well as 28 with the reading ryeong and six with the reading nyeong.
Family name
As a Korean family name, Young can be written with three different hanja, indicating different lineages. According to the 2000 South Korean Census, a total of 259 people had these family names.[1]
永 (길 영gil yeong 'eternal'): 132 people and 40 households. Reported bon-gwan (clan hometowns) included Gangnyeong, Gyeongju, and Pyeonghae.[1] Although the family name was found in numerous historical records, it was recorded under the census for the first time in a 1930 survey by Japanese colonial government with one family living in Seoul.[2] More families bearing the surname has been found since then in the contemporary census surveys.
榮 (영화 영yeonghwa yeong 'flourishing'): 86 people and 20 households. There was one reported bon-gwan, Yeongcheon, and two people whose bon-gwan was not recorded.[1] This character is also used to write a Chinese family name now pronounced Róng in Mandarin.
影 (그림자 영geurimja yeong 'shadow' or 'reflection'): 41 people and 15 households. There was one reported bon-gwan, Seoncheon, and one person whose bon-gwan was not recorded.[1] Seoncheon is located in an area that became North Korean territory after the division of Korea; one person with this family name who had come from North Korea and was living in Seoul stated that there had previously been many more people with that family name living near Seoncheon.[3]
While as of June 2022[update], the list of additional hanja permitted for use in given names contains 34 hanja with the reading yeong (including two which are variant forms of another in the same list), 28 hanja with the reading ryeong (with one permitted variant form, and two which are variant forms of one in the list of Basic Hanja for educational use), and five hanja with the reading nyeong:[4]
You Young (born 2004), South Korean female figure skater
As name element
Names containing this element were popular for newborn boys in South Korea from the 1940s through the late 1960s.[5] Korean names which begin with this element include:
^ abcd"행정구역(구시군)/성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구" [Family names by administrative region (district, city, county): separated by bon-gwan, households and individuals]. Korean Statistical Information Service. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
^"성씨유래검색: 영(永)". Daejeon: Jokbo Museum. Retrieved 27 October 2015. The Jokbo Museum cites the following work for their pages on family names: 김진우 (2009). 한국인 의 역사 [The History of Koreans]. 春秋筆法 [Chunchu Pilbeop]. OCLC502157619.
^"성씨유래검색: 영(影)". Daejeon: Jokbo Museum. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
^ ab가족관계의 등록 등에 관한 규칙 [Regulations on Registration of Family Relations] (Regulation 3062) (in Korean). 30 June 2022. In general, hanja can only be used for hangul corresponding to their exact pronunciation, but as stated in Footnote 1 of Schedule 1, "However, hanja with the initial sound 'n' or 'r' may be used for no consonant onset or 'n' depending on how they sound." ("그러나 첫소리(初聲)가 'ㄴ' 또는 'ㄹ'인 한자는 각각 소리나는 바에 따라 'ㅇ' 또는 'ㄴ'으로 사용할 수 있다.")
^이진희 [Yi Jin-hui] (28 January 2009). "너도 민준이니… 어! 또 서연이야" [You're also Min-jun ... Oh! Another Seo-yeon?]. Hankook Ilbo. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
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