Given name
Yvonna
Yvonna is a feminine given name from French. It is used in Faroese.
Original FrenchYvonne
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Faroese usage, Yvonna developed from Yvonne.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1923. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yvonna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,184
- 0 boys · 1,184 girls
- Most popular year
- 1954
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #17,217 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −43%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 17,217 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 27 in 1954. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 890 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Yvonna’s family of names
In Faroese usage, Yvonna developed from the French form Yvonne. In Faroese usage, Yvonna has a conventional equivalent in the Portuguese form Ivone. Yvonna has a related form in Yvonne.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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