Jung
Barely forty people in Poland carry it, and they split almost evenly between women and men. Germanic at root, from a word that means "young".
Jung Pronunciation
Jung is pronounced YOONK (/junk/).
What Jung means
Where Jung comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Jung comes from Germanic ground, where the everyday adjective jung means young. It is a cognate of English young and Dutch jong, and further back it shares a root with Latin iuvenis, the source of our word juvenile. The short meaning sits right on the surface. In Polish that is młody, fresh in years.
In Korea the same three letters travel a different road. Jung appears inside a great many Korean given names and surnames, and its meaning shifts with the character used to write it, such as uprightness or brightness. The Germanic word and the Korean syllable meet only in the Latin spelling.
On a Polish class register Jung asks for nothing extra. It has no diminutive. A teacher reads the one short syllable and moves to the next name. What the name offers is young, and młody is what stays.
How many people are named Jung
1 in 901753 women in Poland is named Jung. 43 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5864 among female names.
Jung as a middle name
Jung is a first name for 43 women in Poland and a middle name for another 31, a 58/42 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1261st, between Iryna (31) and Justina (31).
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#1259 Iman31
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#1260 Iryna31
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#1261 Jung31
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#1262 Justina31
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#1263 Katharine31