girls:
5 births since 1996
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
481 births since 1961
#4105 (10th percentile)
overall:
486 births since 1961
#7253 (6th percentile)
The name Yvan is the #7,253 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 486 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 6.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,105 (10.4% percentile) for all time with 481 births since 1961. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1996.
Yvan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for boys and 1996 for girls). Birth data for Yvan is available in 50 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023 (50 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Yvan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Yvan reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #889) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Yvan is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #900 (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million.
For girls, Yvan reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #859) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yvan".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Yvan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.0% confident that Yvan is pronounced as EE-vuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ee-VAHN, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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