Yvette

Where Yvette comes from

Borrowed from French Yvette. The politics sense is a reference to the name of a docile young girl in a school textbook, and was popularized by separatist politician Lise Payette (1931–2018).
— Wiktionary's entry for Yvette
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1865
    Yvette Guilbert born
    French cabaret singer
  2. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,379 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1967
    Peak, #125
    2,743 babies named Yvette — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1969
    Yvette Cooper born
    British politician
  5. 1973
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #203.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from French borrowed from French in the nineteenth century.
Namesakes
  • Yvette Cooper · British politician, born 1969
  • Yvette Guilbert · French cabaret singer, 1865–1944
  • Yvette Mimieux · American actress, 1942–2022
  • Yvette Williams · New Zealand athlete, 1929–2019
  • Yvette Nicole Brown · American actress, born 1971

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.