Ivett
Feminine · “little yew”
Ivett is not a shortened Yvette — it is the standard Hungarian spelling of it. Hungarian does not use y as a vowel in native words and writes what it hears, so the French name arrives stripped to its bones: an i where the y was, no silent e at the end, and nothing else changed. It is one of the tidier examples of a language taking a borrowing and simply making it legible.
How old is the name Ivett?
Ivett first appears in US birth records in 1966 — 59 years ago. The typical Ivett alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 700 people named Ivett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Ivett most popular?
Ivett peaked in 1991, reaching #4059 nationally. Today it ranks #13208, 9,149 places below that high. See the whole 1991 chart.
Where it comes from
From iv to Ivett
The story of Ivett
French built a great many women's names by adding -ette to a man's name: Yvette from Yves, Juliette from Jules, Colette from Nicolas. Yvette became widely used in France in the early twentieth century and spread across Europe. Hungarian took it and respelled it according to its own rules, producing Ivett, which is entirely standard there. American records carry the Hungarian spelling in small numbers, and it also appears among Spanish-speaking families, who have their own reasons for preferring an i to a y at the front of a word.
Meaning
little yew
From the French Yves, itself from a Germanic element meaning the yew tree, with the diminutive ending -ette that French uses to make women's names from men's. The yew mattered because it made bows, so a name that sounds delicate is built on the wood of a weapon.
How the name formed
- iv
- Yves
- Yvette
- Ivett
Related forms: Ivett · Yvette · Ivette · Ivette
Pronouncing Ivett
EE-vet
Two syllables, stress on the first — Hungarian always stresses the first syllable. French says ee-VET with the weight at the back, which is the version most Americans will produce.
Nicknames for Ivett
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1966
- Most girls named
- 200126 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4059reached in 1991
- Change vs 2024
- −33.3%6 in 2025, from 9
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Ivett in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Ivett in Hungarian — same name
- Yvette in French — same name
- Ivette in Spanish — same name
- Ivette in German — same name
Ivetts among us
people named Ivett are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 267,878 born in 2025 was named Ivett
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Carolena test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Ivett's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Carolena climbed just as high around 1944, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Carolena's path sketches the road Ivett is walking now.
Ivett sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Ivett beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Ivett in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is a standard Hungarian spelling rather than an American shortening.
- Five letters and two syllables with no sound English lacks.
- The French name behind it is recognized across Europe.
- It is genuinely uncommon in America while being entirely easy to say.
- Yvette and Ivette are both commoner and will be written instead.
- The stress falls differently in Hungarian and French, so relatives may not agree.
- The missing final e reads as an error to English speakers who know the French name.
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Feminine · #13208 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Ivetts are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Ivett are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Ivett in 2025?
- Ivett ranks #13208 among US girl names in 2025, with 6 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Ivett?
- About 1 in every 267,878 US girls born in 2025 was named Ivett — 6 in all.
- Will my child share the name Ivett with classmates?
- Ivett will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Ivett
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