Yong (surname)

Yong
Chinese name
Chinese
Literal meaningharmony
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYōng
Wade–GilesYung1
IPA[jʊ́ŋ]
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingJung1
Southern Min
Hokkien POJIong
Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese'jowng
Old Chinese
Zhengzhang/*qoŋ/
Vietnamese name
VietnameseUng

Yong (雍) is a Chinese surname. It is Romanized as Yung in Wade-Giles, Iong in Min Nan and Yung in Cantonese. According to a 2013 study, it was the 339th most common name in China; it was shared by 139,000 people, or 0.01% of the population, being most popular in Sichuan. It is the 304th name in the Hundred Family Surnames poem.