Yvonne

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Yvonne boys named Yvonne

By the numbers

Total US births

156,738

Estimated living today

107,000

Median age today

64

Peak year

1953

Best rank

103rd

Rank in 2025

2,051st

First recorded

1886

Girls / boys

156,119 / 619

How old the living Yvonnes are

born that year still alive today

Of the 156,738 babies given the name since 1886, about 107,000 are alive — 68 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 51,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 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

From the French feminine form of Yvon, variant of Yves, from a Germanic root for "yew" (see Old English iw). It might have originally been used of an archer, since yew wood was used to make bows.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Yvonnes

• Yvonne De Carlo (1922–2007)Canadian-born American actress, dancer and singer
• Yvonne Strahovski (born 1982)Australian actress
• Yvonne Mitchell (1915–1979)British actress
• Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923–2025)French mathematician and physicist
• Yvonne Craig (1937–2015)American actress
• Yvonne Catterfeld (born 1979)German singer
• Yvonne Farrell (born 1951)Irish architect
• Yvonne van Gennip (born 1964)Dutch speed skater

People named Yvonne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Yvonne is most common

• CA20,545
• NY14,299
• TX12,621
• PA8,187
• IL7,720
• MI7,641
• OH6,165
• LA4,904
• FL4,045
• NJ3,640

Relative to how many babies each state records, Yvonne is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (2.3×), New Mexico (2.2×), Hawaii (2.0×), Louisiana (1.8×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1953

The most popular girls’ names the year Yvonne peaked:

• Mary
• Linda
• Deborah
• Patricia
• Susan
• Barbara

All the names of 1953

Yvonne elsewhere

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.

Yvonne: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

Yvonne: rank by region

In 2015, Yvonne was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – 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.

Yvonne 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.

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 Yvonne lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,008 women called Yvonne 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

Listed in 26 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 26 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

• Yvonna

Yvonne against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Yvonne vs Yvonna

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