girls:
155.9k births since 1886
#255 (96th percentile)
boys:
619 births since 1921
#3967 (13th percentile)
overall:
156.6k births since 1886
#482 (94th percentile)
The name Yvonne is the #482 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 156,561 recorded births since 1886. This represents the 93.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #255 (95.6% percentile) for all time with 155,942 births since 1886. For boys, it ranks #3,967 (13.4% percentile) for all time with 619 births since 1921.
Yvonne first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1886 (1886 for girls and 1921 for boys). Birth data for Yvonne is available in 136 out of the 138 years between 1886 and 2023 (136 years for girls and 63 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 Yvonne has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Yvonne reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 86.9% percentile (ranked #77) with 2,879 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 2,879 births per million (ranked 86.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Yvonne ranks #865 for girls (8.7% percentile) with 50 births per million, which is 1.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Yvonne reached its peak popularity in 1935, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #505) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yvonne".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Yvonne. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.0% confident that Yvonne is pronounced as ee-VAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-VAHN, at 27.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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