Junge

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Junge is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Danish surname10 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Norway, Sweden

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

  Also written Jünge, Jungé

• Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Chile, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Juñgê, Jünge

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Jun-Ge, Jungé, Jünge

• French surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Congo - Kinshasa

  Also written Jûñgę, Jüñgë

• Chinese surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, China

  Also written Jun-Ge

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Junge is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of jungō

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Portuguese, inflection of jungir:

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Ivan the Youngb. 1458RUnot in their usual nameRussian leader
• Ekaterina Jungeb. 1843RUborn countess Tolstoy, Russian painter and memoirist (1843–1913)
• Alfred Jungeb. 1886DEGerman art director (1886–1964)
• Hans Hermann Jungeb. 1914DESS officer (1914–1944)
• Traudl Jungeb. 1920DEsecretary to Adolf Hitler (1920-2002)
• Klaus Jungeb. 1924DEGerman chess player (1924–1945)
• Winfried Jungeb. 1935DEGerman director and screenwriter
• Daniel Jungeb. 1950USfilmmaker
• Eric Jungeb. 1977USAmerican baseball player
• Franziska Jungeb. 1981DEGerman actress and Singer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Junge mean, and where does it come from?

from an Old Danish personal name Odhinkar, composed of the elements Odinn (the god) -i- kdrr ‘strong’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.

What are other forms of the name Junge?

In the etymology graph, Young, Jung and Jünger are forms of the same name in other languages.

In which country does Junge have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Junge, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled junge.

Where is Junge most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Junge is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Junge?

In the United States, the national register counted 1,483 people named Junge in 2010, about 1 in 224 thousand residents.