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Yvan

#7,175 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Ivan

Yvan has been given to 510 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #7,175 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Yvan, 2025

1 in 276,000

Yvan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yvan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ivan

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yvan means

Yvan is a form of Ivan.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yvan → Ivan → Ива́н. The family’s meaning is “Ivan's”, recorded in Russian with the source elements Ива́н.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ivan.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 505 boys were recorded with the name Yvan between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2020; its best national rank was #3,831 in 1974.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,440 in 2020 to #7,175 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,666 in 2015 to #7,175 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Yvan between 1996 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1996; its best national rank was #15,852 in 1996.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yvan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,175
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yvan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yvan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yvans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yvan was born before 2003 — so the typical Yvan is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
21.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
55.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
505
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 21.6% of all recorded uses (109).

Is Yvan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+63
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,735
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−509
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.92×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.6%
Peak was 2020 (17)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,831
1974

Spellings of Yvan

Yvan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 24.3% against Yvan's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Yvan is used

Across 1910–2025, Yvan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 767,404 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Yvan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yvan around the world

Where Yvan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2012
    #4,805
    in 2012
  • France
    1900–2025
    #1,819
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Yvan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,175
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,735
Best rank ever
#3,831
1974
Peak year
2020
17 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
505
Count in 2025
12

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,852
1996
Peak year
1996
5 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yvan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Yvan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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