Yvette

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Yvette is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Jamaica it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Celtic origin, feminine form of Yves; from a word meaning ‘yew’.

rarermore common
  • JMJamaica1 in 1.6K◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 4.7K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 5.6K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈63K ●

across 11 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
433 ●

844K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.0K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

YvetteLatin · English●903K records
ИветтCyrillic · Russian●48 records
이베트Hangul · Korean●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Celtic origin, feminine form of Yves; from a word meaning ‘yew’.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Yvette is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#50053,418718K rec.1 in 6.2K53KYvette433
GB United Kingdom#54437,02934K rec.—4Yvette155
AU Australia#57324,47622K rec.—85Yvette181
CA Canada#66813,37613K rec.—1Yvette136
PH Philippines—7,2725.7K rec.——Yvette87
ES Spain—4,416△1.3K rec.1 in 11K4.4KYvette51
ZA South Africa—3,3333.2K rec.——Yvette69
JM Jamaica#112,9413K rec.——Yvette16
IT Italy—2,6582.7K rec.—2Yvette31
EC Ecuador—2,260△118 rec.1 in 7.5K2.3K—12
RU Russia—1,9922K rec.——Yvette23
EG Egypt—1,4401.3K rec.——Yvette19

Roughly 53K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 6.2K). 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●

  • English903K43%
  • French846K40%
  • Spanish121K6%
  • 93K4%
  • German14K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English903,17343%
French845,61040%
Spanish121,1026%
93,2074%
German13,5481%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Yvette is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name1.0M records spelled Yvette19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Belgium

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ÿvette, Yvétte, Ývette, Yvëttë, Ÿvëttë

  • a separate given name98K records spelled Yvette2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

    Also written Y-Vette

  • German given name15K records spelled Yvette2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Netherlands, Austria

    Also written Ÿvétté

69 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Yvette is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Feminine form related to Yves; from the yew tree. Saint Yves, 19 May.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In English, French: feminine form of Yves; the little archer

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, A female given name from French borrowed from French in the nineteenth century.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, a female given name, masculine equivalent Yves

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Féminin d’Yves, d’origine bretonne/celtique.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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●

01K2K3K1900195020002.7K · 1967

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Yvette in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1898–2025
Yearrecords
18987
19005
19026
19038
190614
19077
190814
190913
191017
191118
191240
191350
191455
191589
191679
1917117
1918120
1919115
1920122
1921124
1922141
1923151
1924155
1925160
1926126
1927160
1928156
1929131
1930126
1931107
1932101
1933105
193489
193583
193680
193773
193886
193994
1940119
1941190
1942156
1943151
1944119
1945165
1946154
1947231
1948233
1949221
1950317
1951338
1952402
1953470
1954502
1955563
1956868
1957794
1958824
19591,036
19601,425
19611,849
19621,925
19632,285
19642,552
19652,465
19662,472
19672,743
19682,210
19692,162
19702,052
19711,770
19721,531
19731,265
19741,151
19751,018
19761,002
1977949
1978866
1979864
1980874
1981810
1982866
1983741
1984708
1985682
1986749
1987748
1988791
1989746
1990739
1991781
1992759
1993605
1994543
1995515
1996475
1997398
1998382
1999332
2000407
2001393
2002344
2003321
2004324
2005303
2006295
2007245
2008231
2009190
2010191
2011193
2012154
2013149
2014162
2015148
2016115
2017103
2018122
2019122
2020116
2021128
2022126
2023111
2024129
2025128

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 124 years between 1898–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Yvette Williams, b. 1929Yvette Mimieux, b. 1942Ronnie Spector, b. 1943Chaka Khan, b. 1953Yvette Freeman, b. 1957Yvette Clarke, b. 1964Yvette Cooper, b. 1969Yolanda Griffith, b. 1970Yvette Nicole Brown, b. 1971Yvette Monreal, b. 1992

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 80 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Yvette
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)1995203K#2,041
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202053K#855
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—5.2K#686
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—891#1,836
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020430—
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025383#257
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—341#5,994
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—324#2,870
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—228#4,356
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—169#27,796
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022160—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—159#29,753

Reference works 3

  • 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 · 756 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Yvette?
We estimate roughly 63 thousand people bear Yvette (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Yvette have the most bearers?
We estimate about 53 thousand people bear Yvette in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled yvette.
How common is Yvette compared with other names?
In the United States, Yvette is the 500th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Yvette a male or female name?
Yvette is a female 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.
What does the name Yvette mean?
Recorded meaning: Celtic origin, feminine form of Yves; from a word meaning ‘yew’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Yvette” — the 500th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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