Yong
Fewer than 150 people in Poland carry it, and nearly all are men. Most Poles have never met one. It comes from Chinese and Korean, where it reads as "brave" or "eternal".
Yong Pronunciation
Yong is pronounced IH-onk (/ˈɨɔnk/).
What Yong means
Where Yong comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yong is a sound that sits in two languages at once. In Chinese it can be written with the character 勇, meaning brave, or with 永, meaning eternal. The romanized spelling flattens both into one word, so a single name holds two separate ideas depending on which character stands behind it. Korean carries yong as well, where it turns up as one syllable inside a longer given name.
The name has no single European root. Its origin is filed plainly as other, outside the Latin and Greek stock that shapes most Polish names. That places it among the newer arrivals a teacher might read from a class register in Wrocław or Gdańsk.
There are no diminutives here, no softened forms. Yong stays as it is. Behind that one spelling wait two characters, 勇 for brave and 永 for eternal, and which meaning a person carries depends on which character their family wrote down.
How many people are named Yong
1 in 156957 men in Poland is named Yong. 141 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2766 among male names.
Yong as a middle name
Yong is a first name for 141 men in Poland and a middle name for another 22, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1901st, between Yasser (22) and Agaton (21).
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#1899 Yasi̇n22
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#1900 Yasser22
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#1901 Yong22
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#1902 Agaton21
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#1903 Agung21