The name Jonge Vos is spelled as:

- Jonge Vos

- Jongevos

The name origins from the birth of Hendrik Hendriks Vos in 1702 in Hoogeveen (province Drenthe in the Netherlands) as a son of Hendrik Harms Schonewille Vos and Annechien Hendriks Lunenborg Vos (daughter of Trijntje Vos) to make clear the difference between him and his father. He was called Hendrik Hendriks de Jonge Vos, while his father was called Olde Vos (no transaltion required I presume).

His son was again a Hendrik Hendriks and was born in 1731. He used the names:

- Hendrik Hendriks Vos

- Hendrik Jongevos de tweede ("the second")

- Hendrik Hendriks van Noord Jonge Vos.