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Yvonne
Say it: ee-VON
Meaning
A French feminine of Yves, from a Germanic element iv 'yew'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Popular in the US and Britain from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1930s
In the United States
- 156,303 babies given this name since 1886
- At its height in 1937, about 1 in 335 girls
- 116 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Evonne, Yvon
| French | Yvonne |
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Famous bearers
- Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian-American actress
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.