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Yvette
Pronounced /iːˈvɛt/
Rank in 2024
#1,611
Born in 2024
129
Peak year
1967 · #125
Origin
French
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 129 girls were named Yvette, about 1 in every 12,505.
- It peaked in 1967 with 2,743 babies, ranked #125.
- It first shows up in the records in 1898.
- 63,918 girls have been named Yvette since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Yvette per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.5Boomers1946–64
- 1.0Gen X1965–80
- 0.4Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,901 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Silent: 2,131 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Boomers: 16,988 babies, 0.47 per 1,000. Gen X: 25,394 babies, 0.99 per 1,000. Millennials: 11,258 babies, 0.40 per 1,000. Gen Z: 4,703 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,531 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from French Yvette. The politics sense is a reference to the name of a docile young girl in a school textbook, and was popularized by separatist politician Lise Payette (1931–2018).
- A female given name from French borrowed from French in the nineteenth century.
- Origin
- French
- Say it
- /iːˈvɛt/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Yvette, CC BY-SA 4.0.