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Yvon

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Possibly yew, through Yves

Yvon has been given to 276 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1958, with 15 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 83% boys, 17% girls all-time.

Babies named Yvon, 2004

1 in 764,000

Yvon over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Yvon over time

In 2004, Yvon went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19162004

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Yvon: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly yew, through Yves

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yvon means

Yvon belongs to the name family reached through Yvon → Yves. Its meaning is “yew”.

Origin, language, and formation

Yvon is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yves.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Yvon is pronounced /i.vɔ̃/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 229 boys were recorded with the name Yvon between 1916 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1958; its best national rank was #2,172 in 1958.

In the United States, 47 girls were recorded with the name Yvon between 1956 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1993; its best national rank was #5,370 in 1957.

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.

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How common is Yvon?

Yvon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 397,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2004
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,591 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yvon 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 2004 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 529,591 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yvon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yvons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yvon was born before 1959 — so the typical Yvon is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
23.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
162
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (53).

Is Yvon 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (15)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,172
1958

Spellings of Yvon

Yvon is not the most common spelling — Evan is, with 18.3% against Yvon'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 Yvon is used

Across 1910–2025, Yvon was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,009,469 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 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. Yvon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yvon around the world

Where Yvon 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.

  • France
    1900–2022
    #4,296
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1991–1997
    #1,945
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1971–1971
    #512
    in 1971

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

Yvon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,172
1958
Peak year
1958
15 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
229
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,370
1957
Peak year
1993
9 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
47
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yvon

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

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Sibling names for Yvon

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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