Yvès
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yvès is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From French Yves, from Germanic.
- USUnited States1 in 73K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 35K
- DKDenmark1 in 125K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 278 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
4,543 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yves in US United States, JM Jamaica, ES Spain and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From French Yves, from Germanic.
Sources 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yvès counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,543 | 1 in 73K | 4.2K | Yves | 278 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,202 | 1 in 176K | 1.2K | — | 4 |
| SE Sweden | — | 288 | 1 in 35K | 288 | — | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 183 | 1 in 273K | 183 | Yves | 32 |
| PL Poland | — | 115 | 1 in 333K | 115 | Yves | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 47 | 1 in 125K | 47 | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 31 | 1 in 180K | 341 | — | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | #177 | — | — | — | Yves | 2 |
4,543 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Yvès mean, and where does it come from?
- From French Yves, from Germanic. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular… and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Yvès have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.5 thousand people named Yvès, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yves.
- Where is Yvès most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yvès is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Yvès?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,543 people named Yvès in 2020, about 1 in 73 thousand residents.
- How common is Yvès compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Yvès is the 177th most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yv%C3%A8sThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Yvès” — the 177th most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.