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Yvonna

Feminine · “yew”

1923high 1954
#14942 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare5 girls in 2025

Yvonna is a French name given an Italian ending, and the tree underneath is a yew. Yves comes from a Germanic word for that wood, and the reason a wood became a name is practical: yew was what bows were made of, so a name built on it was a name about weapons before it was a name about anything else.

How old is the name Yvonna?

Yvonna first appears in US birth records in 1923 — 102 years ago. The typical Yvonna alive today was born around 1965, making them about 60 years old. About 900 people named Yvonna are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Yvonna most popular?

Yvonna peaked in 1935, reaching #1663 nationally. Today it ranks #14942, 13,279 places below that high. See the whole 1935 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Yvonna

Yves became a Breton and then a French name largely through a thirteenth-century lawyer and priest from Brittany who was made a saint for defending the poor in court — one of very few lawyers to manage it. The feminine Yvonne followed and became widely used in France and then in English-speaking countries in the twentieth century. The final a in this spelling is an American addition on the Italian model, which turns a French name ending in a silent e into one ending in an audible vowel — the same move that produced Simona from Simone and Yvetta from Yvette.

Meaning

yew

The Germanic element iv or iwa names the yew tree, and it stands behind Yves, Ivo and Yvonne. Yew was the bow-wood of medieval Europe, valued above every other timber for it, so names built on the word belonged to the same family of ideas as names built on spears and swords. Yvonne is the French feminine of Yves and Yvonna adds a further ending. The derivation is not disputed.

How the name formed

  1. iwa
  2. Yves
  3. Yvonne
  4. Yvonna

Related forms: Yvonne · Yves · Ivo · Iwona

Pronouncing Yvonna

ee-VON-uh

ee-VON-uh, three syllables, stress in the middle. Yvonne is two, ee-VON, with the final e silent — so the added a is an audible change rather than a cosmetic one, and this is a genuinely different name in the mouth.

Nicknames for Yvonna

Moderate

VonnieBuilt from the middle, and the standard short form for every name carrying this element
YvieBuilt from the front, said EE-vee, and a standing name of its own in Britain
OnnaThe back of the name taken alone, which this ending makes available and Yvonne does not
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1923–20252714027519232025

US babies named Yvonna per year from 1923 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#16631920s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1923
Most girls named
195427 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1663reached in 1935
Change vs 2022
0.0%5 in 2025, from 5
Yvonna sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 1954, with 27 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

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.

Yvonna in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Yvonne in French — same name
  • Yves in French — related form
  • Ivo in German — related form
  • Iwona in Polish — same name

Yvonnas among us

900

people named Yvonna are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 321,453 born in 2025 was named Yvonna

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

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Is it right for you

The Tsuruko test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Yvonna's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tsuruko climbed just as high around 1914, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tsuruko's path sketches the road Yvonna is walking now.

40%chance Yvonna will feel dated by 2040
Yvonna, aligned on its peakTsuruko· peak 1914not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-10 yrs+70 yrsTsuruko · #3282Yvonna today
Yvonna today is about where Tsuruko stood in 2004 — 90 years past a #1665-sized peak. Within 15 years, Tsuruko had drifted out of the mainstream charts.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Yvonna 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

Yvonna beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Yvonna in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Yvonnathis name5#14942Hester5#14942Lyda5#14942Zula5#14942Zona5#14942

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • The meaning is concrete and comes with a real reason behind it rather than a vague association.
  • Vonnie and Onna are both usable short forms and they sit in different registers.
  • The added vowel makes the ending unambiguous, which the silent French e does not.
What to consider
  • Yvonne is the standard spelling and this one will be rewritten as that on most documents.
  • The Y at the front puzzles English readers, who expect a consonant there and get a vowel.
  • The name belongs audibly to the middle of the last century, which is either the appeal or the objection.

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Frequently asked

How many Yvonnas are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Yvonna are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How popular is the name Yvonna in 2025?
Yvonna ranks #14942 among US girl names in 2025, with 5 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Yvonna?
About 1 in every 321,453 US girls born in 2025 was named Yvonna — 5 in all.
Will my child share the name Yvonna with classmates?
Yvonna will almost certainly be the only one in school.

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