Origen e historia

Descriptive surname from Old English 'geong' and Old Norse 'ungr', both meaning 'young', originally applied to distinguish a younger member of a family from an older relative of the same given name — a common medieval naming problem. The name entered Scotland through both the Anglian settlement of the Lowlands and Norse contact in the Northern Isles and coastal regions. Young is broadly distributed across Scotland, without the strong regional concentration of clan-based surnames, reflecting its use as a generic distinguishing epithet across many unrelated families.