Girl · Germanic, through French
Yvette
Say it: ee-VET
Meaning
Feminine diminutive of Yves, probably from Germanic iv 'yew'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Popular in France in the 1920s–40s and rarely given now.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1960s
In the United States
- 63,611 babies given this name since 1898
- At its height in 1967, about 1 in 602 girls
- 115 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Yvette Guilbert, singer
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Where this comes from
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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