Young
Around 65 people in Poland carry it now, few enough that most will never meet one. It comes from English, where young traces back to the Old English geong.
Young Pronunciation
Young is pronounced ih-O-oonk (/ɨˈɔunk/).
What Young means
Where Young comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Young comes from Old English geong, and it means young. For centuries the word worked as a byname in England. A village held two men with the same first name, and the younger one became Young. The word keeps cognates across the Germanic languages, German jung and Dutch jong among them.
The name stayed a surname far more than a given name. It marks families rather than christenings. Neil Young, the Canadian musician, carries it. So did Brigham Young, who led Mormon settlers to Utah in 1847.
As a first name, Young is rare. It reads as English, and the meaning sits on the surface, plain to anyone who knows the ordinary word. On a Polish class register it would stand out at once. There is no Polish source for it, no name-day, no diminutive.
The origin is one small word: geong, young.
How many people are named Young
1 in 454174 men in Poland is named Young. 65 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4552 among male names.
Young as a middle name
Young is a first name for 65 men in Poland and a middle name for another 68, a 49/51 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 822nd, between Su (68) and Adele (67).
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#820 Sofija68
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#821 Su68
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#822 Young68
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#823 Adele67
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#824 Alessandra67