YOUNG Family Members
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Meaning (See https://www.familysearch.org/en/surname):
YOUNG family pages done are: m. = maiden name
- English, Scottish, and northern Irish: distinguishing name (Middle English yunge, yonge ‘young’), for the younger of two bearers of the same personal name, usually distinguishing a younger brother or a son. In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge.
- Americanization of a cognate, equivalent, or like-sounding surname in some other language, notably German Jung and Junk, Dutch (De) Jong(H) and Jong, and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse.
- Assimilated form of French Dion or Guyon.
- Chinese: see Yang.
YOUNG family pages done are: m. = maiden name