Yvonne
From a Germanic word for the yew, cis, a slow, long-lived tree once planted in old churchyards. In Poland it reads as French and stays rare: most Poles have never met one, and today no newborn girls carry it.
Yvonne Pronunciation
What Yvonne means
Where Yvonne comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yvonne grew from a Germanic word for the yew tree. The masculine Yves draws on the same root, and Yvonne stands as its French feminine form. French speakers took that old northern element and shaped it into something fully their own, though the meaning still points back to a tree.
The yew is patient. It grows slowly and can live for centuries, which is why it was often planted in old churchyards. To carry a name that means yew is to be linked to that dark, durable wood.
In French letters, Yvonne belongs to Yvonne de Galais, the beloved young woman of Alain-Fournier's 1913 novel Le Grand Meaulnes. On a Polish class register today, the name still reads as French, and behind it sits the yew, cis, the tree that gave Yvonne its meaning.
How many people are named Yvonne
1 in 81386 women in Poland is named Yvonne. 277 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1831 among female names.
Yvonne as a middle name
Yvonne is a first name for 277 women in Poland and a middle name for another 133, a 68/32 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 570th, between Beatrycze (133) and Nikoletta (132).
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#568 Afrodyta133
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#569 Beatrycze133
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#570 Yvonne133
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#571 Nikoletta132
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#572 Laurencja131