Yves

Where Yves comes from

Unadapted borrowing from French Yves.
— Wiktionary's entry for Yves
  • French
  • 1 syllable
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,897 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1981
    Peak, #1,661
    35 babies named Yves — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1983
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,787.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from French
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.