Yvonne

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Yvonne is a female equivalent of the male given name Ivo (for origin and meaning see there).

distribution

The name Yvonne was rarely used in Germany in the first half of the 20th century. From the fifties onwards, it gradually gained popularity. In 1975 he made it among the ten most common female first names of this year. Then its popularity slowly declined. In the new millennium only a few girls are called Yvonne.

variants

  • Ivette, Yvette (French diminutive form)
  • Iveta (Baltic, Slavic)
  • Ivona , Iva (Croatian)
  • Ivonne
  • Iwona (Polish), Iwonka (diminutive)
  • Yvona (Breton)
  • Ivoni (Greek)
  • Ivenna (Bulgarian)

name day

Wrong variants

  • Ivana, Iwana etc. are feminine forms of Ivan and thus Slavic variants of the name Johanna.

Well-known namesake

Yvonne

Ivonne

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  1. Statistics on "Popular first names"