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
Yvette through the years
  1. 1865
    Yvette Guilbert born
    French cabaret singer
  2. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,379 among girls with 7 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1967
    Peak, #125
    2,743 babies named Yvette, the most in any year.
  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.