# Yvon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yvon/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 276 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 229 / 47 (17% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 5 | 6,885 |
| 1957 | 7 | 5,371 |
| 1966 | 5 | 7,614 |
| 1967 | 5 | 7,845 |
| 1980 | 6 | 10,389 |
| 1990 | 5 | 15,222 |
| 1993 | 9 | 9,551 |
| 1994 | 5 | 15,736 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 6 | 4,032 |
| 1963 | 8 | 3,317 |
| 1964 | 5 | 4,589 |
| 1966 | 5 | 4,538 |
| 1967 | 7 | 3,557 |
| 1969 | 8 | 3,592 |
| 1972 | 5 | 5,746 |
| 1974 | 6 | 5,219 |
| 1976 | 9 | 4,010 |
| 1977 | 7 | 5,119 |
| 1984 | 9 | 4,548 |
| 1985 | 5 | 7,569 |
| 1993 | 5 | 10,148 |
| 1998 | 6 | 9,617 |
| 2004 | 5 | 13,188 |

## People named Yvon

- Yvon Le Roux, French association football player and manager (born 1960)
- Yvon Douis, French footballer (1935–2021)
- Yvon Petra, French tennis player (1916–1984)
- Yvon Chouinard, American mountain climber (1938-)
- Yvon Beliën, Dutch volleyball player
- Yvon Delbos, French politician (1885-1956)
- Yvon Bourges, French politician (1921–2009)
- Yvon Madiot, cyclist
- Yvon Goujon, footballer
- Yvon Villarceau, French astronomer and mathematician
- Yvon Ledanois, French bicycle racer
- Yvon Lambert, Canadian ice hockey player

## 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.