MEANING & HISTORY
What does Yvonne mean?
Yvonne is the French feminine form of Yvon, a form related to Yves. The older name is connected with a Germanic word for the yew tree.
Yew wood was used for bows, which explains an additional association with archery, but archer is not the most direct root gloss. The French feminine ending gives Yvonne its recognizable shape while preserving the tree-name connection.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
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Tagalog
- /ʔiˈvon/Standard-Tagalog
- [ʔɪˈvon̪]Standard-Tagalog
- /ʔiˈbon/with nativization
- [ʔɪˈbon̪]with nativization
Y · vonne2 source divisions
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
TagalogEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Yvonne, from French feminine form of Yvon, variant of Yves, from a Germanic root for "yew".
a female given name from English
Wiktionary: Yvonne (Tagalog) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
CebuanoEtymology & source
Borrowed from English Yvonne, from French feminine form of Yvon, variant of Yves, from a Germanic root for "yew".
a female given name from English
Wiktionary: Yvonne (Cebuano) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
EnglishEtymology & source
From the French feminine form of Yvon, variant of Yves, from a Germanic root for "yew" (see Old English iw). It might have originally been used of an archer, since yew wood was used to make bows.
A female given name from French borrowed from France, in regular use since the twentieth century.
Wiktionary: Yvonne (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
EnglishEtymology & source
Unadapted borrowing from French Yves.
A male given name from French
Wiktionary: Yvonne (English) ↗ · Contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0
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People with the name Yvonne
Public figures and other documented namesakes linked by an explicit given-name claim. This is a selection of records, not a popularity ranking.
DOCUMENTED NAMESAKE
Yvonne Roña Cagas
Filipino Governor
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Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
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OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗Wikidata
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distinct person records with an explicit given-name claim
Community-edited coverage, not a census or birth registry. Examples: Yvonne Roña Cagas, Yvonne Chua
PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Yvonne in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Related forms & spellings
Related forms may have their own language histories. They are not included in this spelling’s PSA count.
Similar names to Yvonne
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Dionne♀Feminine form of Dion; also associated with Dione
- Anne♀Grace; form of Anna and Hannah
- Dianne♀Variant of Diane, from Latin Diana
- Jeanne♀God is gracious; French form of Joanna
- Joanne♀Joanna-family form; God is gracious
- Yvette♀French feminine form of Yves; yew
- Arianne♀Variant of Ariane, from Greek Ariadne
- Johanne♀God is gracious; feminine Joanna-family form
What rhymes with Yvonne?
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Explore Yvonne further
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- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wikidata given-name item Q18115587 — Yvonne (opens in a new tab)
Given-name identity, native labels, language associations and explicit class where present; not lexical meaning or population frequency.
- Wikidata — Yvonne Roña Cagas (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q18115587 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wikidata — Yvonne Chua (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name claim P735 linking to Q18115587 and citizenship claim P27 linking to Philippines Q928; community-edited evidence, not a civil-registry record.
- Wiktionary contributors — Yvonne (Tagalog) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Yvonne (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary contributors — Yvonne (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary contributors — Yvonne (English) (opens in a new tab)
Language-specific given-name etymology; shared spelling does not prove every bearer has this origin.
- Wiktionary: Yvonne (opens in a new tab)
Name formation and linguistic history; consulted existing imported etymology.