Yvette
Fewer than 60 women in Poland carry it, so most people here will never meet one. A Latin name at root, tied to the yew tree.
Yvette Pronunciation
What Yvette means
Where Yvette comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yvette reaches French from a Latin root, and its meaning stays fixed on one tree. That tree is the yew, cis in Polish, dark-needled and slow to grow. French usage shaped the name into the soft, feminine form read on a school register today.
A real woman gives the name its oldest anchor. Sainte Yvette de Huy was born near Liège in 1158 and widowed at eighteen with two sons. She left the world for a leper house, then for a recluse's cell, and died in 1228. French calendars still mark her on 13 January, the name-day for every Yvette.
The yew behind the name is a patient, long-lived tree, common in old churchyards. A girl called Yvette carries that quiet botanical sense whether or not she knows it. The link is easy to check. Yvette means yew, cis.
How many people are named Yvette
1 in 382099 women in Poland is named Yvette. 59 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4839 among female names.
Yvette as a middle name
Yvette is a first name for 59 women in Poland and a middle name for another 42, a 58/42 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1072nd, between Wayan (42) and Andrzeja (41).
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#1070 Waltraut42
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#1071 Wayan42
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#1072 Yvette42
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#1073 Andrzeja41
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#1074 Cataleya41