Younger

10,588 people in the United States were counted with the surname Younger in the 2020 census, making it the 3,333rd most common in the country. That is about one person in 28,200.

By the numbers

People: 10,588
Rank: 3,333rd
How common: 1 in 28,200
Per 100,000: 3.5

Where the name comes from

An English (mainly Northumberland and eastern Scotland) surname from Middle English yungre (“younger”), used to distinguish younger and older men with the same name.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Younger described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 60.3%
Black, not Hispanic 27.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.8%
Hispanic or Latino 4.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Younger

William Pitt the Younger (1759–1806)British statesman
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543)German artist and printmaker
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger (1848–1916)Chief of the German General Staff
Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564–1638)Flemish painter
Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–1586)German Renaissance artist
Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601–1678)Flemish painter
Carl Linnaeus the Younger (1741–1783)Swedish naturalist
David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690)Flemish Baroque painter

People named Younger with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Younger

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.