Yvette
Yvette reached its high-water mark in 1967 at number 125, and has been recorded 64,233 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,622nd. About 56,000 Yvettes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 54.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Yvette boys named Yvette
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 64,233
- Estimated living today
- 56,000
- Median age today
- 54
- Peak year
- 1967
- Best rank
- 125th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,622nd
- First recorded
- 1898
- Girls / boys
- 64,047 / 186
How old the living Yvettes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 64,233 babies given the name since 1898, about 56,000 are alive — 87 in every hundred. Roughly 2,600 of them are children and 7,400 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1971 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin French
. The politics sense is a reference to the name of a docile young girl in a school textbook, and was popularized by separatist politician Lise Payette (1931–2018).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Yvettes
- Yvette Cooper (born 1969)British politician
- Yvette Mimieux (1942–2022)American actress
- Yvette Guilbert (1865–1944)French cabaret singer
- Yvette Williams (1929–2019)New Zealand athlete
- Yvette Nicole Brown (born 1971)American actress
- Yvette Cauchois (1908–1999)French physicist
- Yvette Andréyor (1891–1962)French actress
- Yvette Chauviré (1917–2016)French ballet dancer
People named Yvette with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Yvette is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Yvette is most concentrated in New Mexico (3.0×), the District of Columbia (2.7×), Maine (2.4×), California (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1967
The most popular girls’ names the year Yvette peaked:
Yvette elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Yvette | 203,395 | 6th |
| England and Wales girls | Yvette | 262 | 823rd |
| Ireland girls | Yvette | 194 | 248th |
| Scotland girls | Yvette | 89 | 296th |
| France boys | Yvette | 5 | 686th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Yvette: rank by region
In 2024, Yvette was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Yvette | 8 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Yvette among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Yvette | 5,171 | 7,195 |
| Finland girls | Yvette | 18 | 46 |
| the Netherlands boys | Yvette | — | 38 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Yvette lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 341 women called Yvette were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tarragona | Yvette | 17 | 0.039 | 1,539 |
| Barcelona | Yvette | 100 | 0.033 | 1,583 |
| Girona | Yvette | 13 | 0.031 | 1,741 |
| Lleida | Yvette | 7 | 0.031 | 1,674 |
| Balears, Illes | Yvette | 15 | 0.024 | 2,167 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Yvette | 11 | 0.020 | 3,086 |
Listed in 15 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 37 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Yvette against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.