Yvaine
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ee-VAYN
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #5,916 for girls
Yvaine is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,916th for girls in the US (20 babies).
What does Yvaine mean?
Modern: literary coinage; compare the Arthurian knight Yvain
Yvaine is the fallen star who takes human form in Neil Gaiman's novel Stardust (1999) and its 2007 film.
Is Yvaine a girl's or a boy's name?
Yvaine is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 20 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yvaine in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2009, with 14 girls.
Half of all the girls named Yvaine in the UK since 1996 were born between 2010 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yvaine in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 2 | #7,411 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 1 | #7,346 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 4 | #4,951 |
| 2014 | 11 | #2,462 |
| 2013 | 8 | #3,060 |
| 2012 | 6 | #3,881 |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 13 | #2,103 |
| 2009 | 14 | #1,957 |
How popular is Yvaine in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,916th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 20 about 1 in 80,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 20 girls in the US were named Yvaine, making it the 5,916th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. It first appears in the records in 2008.
2025 had the most girls named Yvaine of any year since it first appeared, in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Yvaine in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yvaine in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #5,916 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,674 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 11 | #9,719 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
Names like Yvaine
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Indie, Esme, Aoife, Isla, Maisie, Phoebe, Primrose, Poppy, Myla, Freya, Maeve, Saoirse
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya, Oaklynn, Ailani
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Yvaine: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yvaine, updated 20 October 2026.