# Yvan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yvan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 510 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 505 / 5 (1% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 12, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | 15,860 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 8,746 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,850 |
| 2013 | 7 | 10,704 |
| 2014 | 8 | 9,614 |
| 2015 | 13 | 6,671 |
| 2016 | 9 | 8,788 |
| 2017 | 11 | 7,534 |
| 2018 | 11 | 7,605 |
| 2019 | 13 | 6,761 |
| 2020 | 17 | 5,444 |
| 2021 | 7 | 10,765 |
| 2022 | 13 | 6,811 |
| 2023 | 16 | 5,913 |
| 2024 | 12 | 7,243 |
| 2025 | 12 | 7,179 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 3 | 2,943 |
| 2000 | 3 | 3,036 |
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |

## People named Yvan

- Yvan Goll, French-German poet, key figure in German Expressionism and French Surrealism (1891-1950)
- Yvan Colonna, Corsican independentist and criminal (1960–2022)
- Yvan Neyou, Cameroonian and French footballer
- Yvan Muller, French racecar driver
- Yvan Quénin, basketball player (1920-2009)
- Yvan Cournoyer, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1943)
- Yvan Le Bolloc'h, French actor and television host
- Yvan Mayeur, Belgian politician
- Yvan Verougstraete, Belgian politician
- Yvan Noé, French playwright (1895-1963)
- Victor Noir, French journalist (1848–1870)
- Pierre Wolff, French playwright (1865–1944)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.