In 2025, 128 US girls were named Yvette, making it the 1,630th most common girls’ name of the year, down 9 places from #1,621 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 129 girls named Yvette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #125, reached in 1967. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,743. For comparison, it was #1,525 in 2015 and #455 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yvette in 124 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 7 babies. In all, 64,233 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 22,163 babies named Yvette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,200 US girls were named Yvette; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 129. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,557 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yvette ranked highest in California in 2025, at #829 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ivette (11,185 babies since 1880) and Evette (6,211 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ivett, Yvett and Evett are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.