# Yvette (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yvette/  
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 | girls |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /iːˈvɛt/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Evette |
| US babies named this | 64,233 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 186 / 64,047 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 262, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from French Yvette. The politics sense is a reference to the name of a docile young girl in a school textbook, and was popularized by separatist politician Lise Payette (1931–2018).

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 193 | 1,242 |
| 2012 | 154 | 1,476 |
| 2013 | 149 | 1,495 |
| 2014 | 162 | 1,415 |
| 2015 | 148 | 1,525 |
| 2016 | 115 | 1,814 |
| 2017 | 103 | 1,953 |
| 2018 | 122 | 1,709 |
| 2019 | 122 | 1,715 |
| 2020 | 116 | 1,741 |
| 2021 | 128 | 1,639 |
| 2022 | 126 | 1,676 |
| 2023 | 111 | 1,825 |
| 2024 | 129 | 1,621 |
| 2025 | 128 | 1,630 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 8 | 3,961 |
| 1975 | 9 | 3,939 |
| 1977 | 6 | 5,837 |
| 1979 | 5 | 7,063 |
| 1980 | 6 | 6,233 |
| 1981 | 5 | 7,275 |
| 1982 | 5 | 7,359 |
| 1983 | 7 | 5,479 |
| 1985 | 5 | 7,568 |
| 1987 | 6 | 6,942 |
| 1988 | 8 | 5,742 |
| 1989 | 7 | 6,926 |
| 1990 | 5 | 9,474 |
| 1993 | 6 | 8,691 |
| 1994 | 5 | 10,226 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 11 | 2,148 |
| 2010 | 9 | 2,589 |
| 2011 | 8 | 2,893 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2,460 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2016 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,518 |
| 2020 | 5 | 3,899 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4,056 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |

## In other languages

- Catalan: Ivet
- Czech: Iveta
- French: Yvette
- Hungarian: Ivett
- Latvian: Iveta
- Portuguese: Ivete

## People named Yvette

- Yvette Cooper, British politician (born 1969)
- Yvette Mimieux, American actress (1942–2022)
- Yvette Guilbert, French cabaret singer
- Yvette Nicole Brown, American actress
- Yvette Vickers, American actress, singer and model (1928-2010)
- Yvette Cauchois, French physicist (1908-1999)
- Yvette Andréyor, French actress (1891-1962)
- Yvette Chauviré, French ballet dancer (1917–2016)
- Yvette Clarke, American politician (born 1964)
- Yvette Broch, Dutch female handball player
- Yvette Herrell, American politician and realtor (born 1964)
- Yvette Horner, French musician (1922–2018)

## 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.