When William John Young was born on 8 November 1927, in Altadena, Los Angeles, California, United States, his father, William John Young, was 42 and his mother, Mary Crotty, was 35. He married Mary Ellen Petek on 21 November 1953, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Pasadena Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 11 November 2005, in Sierra Madre, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Sierra Madre Pioneer Cemetery, Sierra Madre, 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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