Yung may be a spelling of a number of Chinese surnames based on their pronunciation in different varieties of Chinese, including the below surnames (listed by their spelling in Pinyin, which reflects the Mandarin pronunciation):[1] Yung is also a variant spelling of the English and Scottish surname Young.
These surnames originated from the Middle English word yong.
There had been twelve people with the surname Yung in Great Britain in 1881.
[1] The 2010 United States Census found 4,218 people with the surname Yung, making it the 7,849th-most-common name in the country.
In both censuses, about three-quarters of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian, and two-tenths as White.