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Yvonna

Gender
Girl
Say it
ee-VAH-nah
Origin
Germanic
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Yvonna is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “yew”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Yvonna mean?

Germanic: elaboration of Yvonne, feminine of Yves

“yew”

An elaboration of Yvonne, the French feminine of Yves, from a Germanic word for the yew tree, prized for bows.

Is Yvonna a girl's or a boy's name?

Yvonna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Yvonna in the US?

Rank in 2025
#14,937among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Yvonna, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 1954, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 1923.

Half of all the girls named Yvonna in the US since 1880 were born between 1949 and 1990, the years shaded on the chart below.

1923Busiest: 27 in 19542025
Yvonna in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
20247#12,156
20230–
20225#15,300
20210–
20205#15,083
201911#9,106
20189#10,540
20175#15,898
20160–
20158#11,830
20145#16,507
201310#10,230
20120–
20117#13,339
20100–
200911#9,971
20086#15,399
20079#11,626
20066#15,147
20056#14,495
200410#9,887
20036#13,837
20026#13,589
20019#10,095
20008#10,738
199915#6,478
199814#6,714
199712#7,278
199615#6,059
199518#5,216
199413#6,666
199314#6,257
199215#6,001
199112#6,969
199018#5,055
198910#7,443
19886#10,381
198710#6,783
19860–
198510#6,455
19840–
19830–
19825#10,514
198113#5,253
198015#4,742
197912#5,426
197810#5,957
197711#5,530
19760–
19759#5,982
19748#6,257
197321#3,121
19729#5,479
197123#2,955
19708#5,817
196921#2,916
196824#2,538
196716#3,210
196619#2,838
196519#2,832
196420#2,824
196324#2,488
196216#3,160
196119#2,838
196020#2,728
195926#2,233
195819#2,662
195716#2,925
195619#2,621
195520#2,471
195427#2,026
195322#2,235
195220#2,326
195116#2,576
195017#2,435
194914#2,725
194817#2,415
194711#3,238
194615#2,481
19458#3,386
19446#4,052
194310#3,039
194210#2,984
194115#2,189
194014#2,202
193916#2,038
193817#1,945
193716#1,999
193615#2,032
193521#1,663
193418#1,834
19335#4,216
193210#2,829
19318#3,224
19309#3,053
19296#4,051
19280–
192710#3,051
192610#3,045
192510#3,115
19248#3,663
19235#4,966

Nicknames for Yvonna

Names like Yvonna

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from 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, “Yvonna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yvonna, updated 20 October 2026.