Yvon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Celtic origin, from a term for ‘yew’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ivɔ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yvon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. In Congo - Brazzaville it is the 5th most common given name.
- CACanada≈1 in 4.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 5.2K
- USUnited States1 in 264K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 277 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 964 (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Brazzaville, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Celtic origin, from a term for ‘yew’. French form derived from Yves.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yvon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #559 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 40K | Yvon | 277 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #398 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.9K | 2 | Yvon | 9 |
| MG Madagascar | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 1 | — | 8 |
| CA Canada | #629 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | 1 | Yvon | 153 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #5 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 964 | — | Yvon | 14 |
| US United States | — | 1,260 | 1 in 264K | 977 | Yvon | 203 |
| GF French Guiana | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | 5 | — | 4 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 973 (French Guiana); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Yvon 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, Variant of Yves; from the yew tree. Saint Yves, 19 May.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, a male given name, a medieval diminutive form of Yves
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, dérivé du nom germanique Ivo, de iv « if »
as a nameDictionnaire des noms de famille du Canada français. Anthroponymie et généalogie. 2e édition
In French, Variante d’Yves; origine celtique, signifie « if ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Forme française liée à Yves/Yvain, 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Yvon Petrab. 1916FRFrench tennis player (1916–1984)
- Yvon Gattazb. 1925FRFrench businessman (1925-2024)
- Yvon Douisb. 1935FRFrench footballer (1935–2021)
- Yvon Chouinardb. 1938USAmerican mountain climber (1938-)
- Guy Canivetb. 1943FRnot in their usual nameFrench judge
- Yvon Neptuneb. 1946HTHaitian Prime Minister
- Yvon Robertb. 1949FRFrench politician
- Yvon Le Rouxb. 1960FRFrench association football player and manager (born 1960)
- Yvon Backb. 1961FRFrench actor
- Yvon Mvogob. 1994CMSwiss association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 455 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 224 | #88,925 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 211 | #88,020 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 194 | #88,825 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Yvon come from?
- Celtic origin, from a term for ‘yew’. French form derived from Yves. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- What are other forms of the name Yvon?
- In the etymology graph, it is recorded as a short form of Yves.
- How do you pronounce Yvon?
- A machine transcription gives /ivɔ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Yvon mean?
- Recorded meaning: Celtic origin, from a term for ‘yew’.
- In which country does Yvon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Yvon in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yvon.
- Is Yvon a male or female name?
- Yvon is a male 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.
- How common is the name Yvon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,260 people named Yvon in 2020, about 1 in 264 thousand residents.
- How common is Yvon compared with other names?
- In France, Yvon is the 559th most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yvonThe 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, “Yvon” — the 559th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.