When Jeff Morgan Young was born on 5 November 1912, in Arkansas, United States, his father, Purn Oliver Young, was 50 and his mother, Martha Hale, was 41. He married Dorothy Bernice Gibbs on 6 January 1934, in Johnson, Arkansas, United States. He lived in Eagle Township, Polk, Arkansas, United States in 1920. He died on 10 March 1987, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States.
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .
Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.
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