Yvan
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yvan is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 80th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Spanish, written in the Latin script.
- CMCameroon1 in 1.7K◐
- FRFrance1 in 2.5K
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈29K ●
- Sources
- 303 ●
- 1 in 2.5K ◐
across 9 countries
76K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #470 | 27,410 | 58K rec. | 1 in 2.5K | 27K | Yvan | 303 |
| CA Canada | #998 | 7,171 | 6.6K rec. | — | 1 | Yvan | 125 |
| BE Belgium | #478 | 3,985 | 4K rec. | — | 2 | Yvan | 89 |
| CH Switzerland | #511 | 1,244 | 707 rec. | — | — | Yvan | 82 |
| CM Cameroon | #80 | 1,114 | 1.1K rec. | — | listed | Yvan | 41 |
| US United States | — | 971 | 2.7K rec. | 1 in 343K | 971 | Yvan | 181 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | #781 | 585 | 611 rec. | — | — | Yvan | 12 |
| PH Philippines | — | 506 | 287 rec. | — | — | Yvan | 27 |
| PE Peru | — | 461 | 274 rec. | — | — | Yvan | 26 |
| BR Brazil | — | 387 | 0 rec. | 1 in 547K | 387 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 249 | 166 rec. | — | listed | Yvan | 46 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 226△ | 60 rec. | 1 in 76K | 226 | Yvan | 19 |
Roughly 27K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 2.5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French177K66%
- Spanish52K19%
- English19K7%
- Portuguese6.4K2%
- Dutch1.2K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 176,953 | 66% |
| Spanish | 51,629 | 19% |
| English | 18,922 | 7% |
| Portuguese | 6,362 | 2% |
| Dutch | 1,178 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Yvan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, alternative form of iwon
as a wordkaikki.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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1914 | 5 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1927 | 5 |
| 1928 | 5 |
| 1929 | 5 |
| 1930 | 5 |
| 1938 | 5 |
| 1940 | 5 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 5 |
| 1965 | 5 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1975 | 5 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 10 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 15 |
| 1989 | 15 |
| 1990 | 10 |
| 1991 | 10 |
| 1992 | 30 |
| 1993 | 20 |
| 1994 | 20 |
| 1995 | 25 |
| 1996 | 20 |
| 1997 | 20 |
| 1998 | 30 |
| 1999 | 25 |
| 2000 | 10 |
| 2001 | 20 |
| 2002 | 20 |
| 2003 | 15 |
| 2004 | 20 |
| 2005 | 15 |
| 2006 | 20 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2009 | 5 |
| 2010 | 10 |
| 2011 | 10 |
| 2012 | 10 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 5 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 |
RE INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) — 58 years between 1914–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Victor Noirb. 1848FRnot in their usual nameFrench journalist (1848–1870)
- Yvan Gollb. 1891FRFrench-German poet, key figure in German Expressionism and French Surrealism (1891-1950)
- Yvan Delporteb. 1928BEwriter (1928–2007)
- Yvan Chiffreb. 1936FRFrench stuntman (1936–2016)
- Yvan Cournoyerb. 1943CACanadian ice hockey player (born 1943)
- Yvan Colonnab. 1960FRCorsican independentist and criminal (1960–2022)
- Yvan Mayeurb. 1960BEBelgian politician
- Yvan Attalb. 1965ILIsraeli-born French actor and director
- Yvan Gauthierb. 1969FRFrench film director
- Nicolas Raskinb. 2001BEnot in their usual nameBelgian footballer (born 2001)
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).
Evidence●
Attested in 57 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 27K | #1,128 |
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 4.3K | #301 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 971 | #12,216 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 387 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 381 | #15,952 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 298 | #8,830 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 259 | #21,608 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 226 | #2,698 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 159 | #6,191 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 147 | #11,547 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 136 | #5,720 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 80 | #8,928 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 416 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yvan?
- We estimate roughly 29 thousand people bear Yvan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yvan have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 27 thousand people bear Yvan in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled yvan.
- How common is Yvan compared with other names?
- In France, Yvan is the 470th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Yvan a male or female name?
- Yvan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yvan” — the 470th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.