Yonkers Name Meaning, Origin and Heraldry

Clerks wrote Yonker in many ways, and Yonkers is one that stuck. The name is usually explained as “The young nobleman or squire”. Yonkers adds a patronymic ending to Yonker, meaning ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. Other spellings include Younker.

In the 2010 US Census, 886 Americans gave Yonkers as their last name (rank 27,277). That puts it inside the top 50,000 US surnames.

There is no single Yonkers family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were. For the full story, order the Yonkers surname pack.