Yvonne
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: French: archer; Greek: wood of the yew tree
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yvonne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 36th most common given name.
- SESweden1 in 319(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 782
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 940
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Yvonne itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #631 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 555 (measured from records)
- 1 in 319 (inferred from the name graph)
118,154 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Celtic origin, feminine form of Yvon; from a word meaning ‘yew’.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Yvonne is read(measured from records)
Yvonne is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English69%
French: archer; Greek: wood of the yew tree
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- French6.9%
- German6.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Yvonne in German.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yvonne 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 | #294 | 118,154 | 1 in 2.8K | 118K | Yvonne | 555 |
| DE Germany | #167 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 782 | — | Yvonne | 243 |
| GB United Kingdom | #204 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 3 | Yvonne | 281 |
| ZA South Africa | #161 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Yvonne | 108 |
| SE Sweden | #116 | 31,992 | 1 in 319 | 32K | Yvonne | 96 |
| CH Switzerland | #136 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 940 | 22 | Yvonne | 107 |
| NL Netherlands | #36 | 4,475as Ivonne | 1 in 3.9K | 42K | Yvonne | 142 |
| GY Guyana | — | 956 | 1 in 785 | 956 | — | 11 |
118,154 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Yvonne is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, French name meaning 'yew'; now fairly common in Ireland.
as a nameIrish first names
French feminine diminutive form of ) Yves (or simply a feminine form based on the Old French oblique case Yvon; cf. }Ivon) now also widely used in the English-speaking world.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Feminine derivative of yves. See main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yvonne de Gaulleb. 1900FRwife of Charles de Gaulle (1900-1979)
- Yvonne De Carlob. 1922CACanadian-born American actress, dancer and singer (1922–2007)
- Yvonne Loriodb. 1924FRFrench musician
- Yvonne Blakeb. 1940GBBritish-born Spanish costume designer (1940-2018)
- Angela Davisb. 1944USnot in their usual nameAmerican political activist, scholar, and author (born 1944)
- La Toya Jacksonb. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer
- Jackée Harryb. 1956USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1956)
- Yvonne van Gennipb. 1964NLDutch speed skater
- Stacey Abramsb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author (born 1973)
- Yvonne Strahovskib. 1982AUAustralian actress
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(measured from records)
Attested in 103 sources across 59 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 118K | #480 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 42K | #46 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 32K | #132 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 16K | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 956 | #57 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 253 | #480 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 92 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2009 | 3 | #783 |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Yvonne come from?
- Celtic origin, feminine form of Yvon; from a word meaning ‘yew’. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Yvonne?
- In the etymology graph, Ivonne, Ivone and Siobhan are forms of the same name in other languages; Lavonne, Lavone and Ivonette are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Yvette.
- In which country does Yvonne have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 118 thousand people named Yvonne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yvonne.
- Where is Yvonne most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yvonne is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 319 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- Is Yvonne a male or female name?
- Yvonne 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 Yvonne mean?
- In English, French: archer; Greek: wood of the yew tree
- How common is the name Yvonne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 118,154 people named Yvonne in 2020, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Yvonne compared with other names?
- In the United States, Yvonne is the 294th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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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, “Yvonne” — the 294th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.