Ivonne
Around 60 women in Poland carry it, and none were born last year: most Poles will never meet an Ivonne. A Germanic name from ivo, "yew," the evergreen tree.
Ivonne Pronunciation
What Ivonne means
Where Ivonne comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ivonne grows from a small Germanic root: ivo, the yew tree. That single word travels through Old French into Yves, then into the feminine Yvonne, and Ivonne is one of its spellings. In Polish the yew is cis, a dark, slow-growing wood once cut for bows.
The masculine source, Ivo, gave France a real bearer worth naming. Yves of Kermartin, a Breton priest and lawyer who died in 1303, became the patron saint of lawyers. His feast on 19 May anchors the name-day for the whole Yves and Yvonne family.
Ivonne carries a German and Spanish colouring more than a Polish one. In Spain and Latin America the spelling with a doubled n is common, and it reads there as warm and familiar. A Polish teacher reading a class register might pause on it once, then move on.
The yew sense is literal here, not a later gloss. Ivonne means the tree, straight back to Germanic ivo.
How many people are named Ivonne
1 in 375731 women in Poland is named Ivonne. 60 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4759 among female names.
Ivonne as a middle name
Ivonne is a first name for 60 women in Poland and a middle name for another 28, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1346th, between Hanh (28) and Loreta (28).
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#1344 Gudrun28
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#1345 Hanh28
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#1346 Ivonne28
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#1347 Loreta28
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#1348 Ludmila28