girls:
63.8k births since 1898
#499 (91st percentile)
boys:
186 births since 1956
#4400 (4th percentile)
overall:
64k births since 1898
#924 (88th percentile)
The name Yvette is the #924 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 63,974 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 88.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #499 (91.3% percentile) for all time with 63,788 births since 1898. For boys, it ranks #4,400 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 186 births since 1956.
Yvette first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (1898 for girls and 1956 for boys). Birth data for Yvette is available in 122 out of the 126 years between 1898 and 2023 (122 years for girls and 26 years for boys). 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 Yvette has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Yvette reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 83.4% percentile (ranked #123) with 1,598 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 1,598 births per million (ranked 83.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Yvette ranks #841 for girls (11.2% percentile) with 63 births per million, which is 4.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Yvette reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #632) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1994.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yvette".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Yvette. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.2% confident that Yvette is pronounced as ih-VEHT, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ee-VEHT, at 43.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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