Entry № 11868 · French origin

Yvette Yvette — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ee-VET /
Gender
Girl
Origin
French
Meaning
"Yew tree (Yvette Mimieux; Yvette Nicole Brown)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (French)

A name that means "yew tree (yvette mimieux; yvette nicole brown)".

Yvette is the French feminine of Yves — from the Old Germanic iv (yew tree, the wood traditionally used for archery bows in medieval Europe). Yvette Mimieux (1942-2022) — American actress; star of The Time Machine (1960, opposite Rod Taylor — one of the first major MGM sci-fi films); Where the Boys Are (1960), Light in the Piazza (1962), The Black Hole (1979 Disney).

Yew tree (Yvette Mimieux; Yvette Nicole Brown) — a French name.

The name in its native script.

Yvette
Transliteration
Yvette
Pronunciation
/ iːˈvɛt /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Yvette stands.

Yvette does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Yvettes before her.

Real people
Yvette Mimieux
American actress.
1942 – 2022
Yvette Nicole Brown
American actress (Community).
born 1971
Yvette Cooper
UK Home Secretary.
born 1969
In fiction
Yvette
Various French literature.

Names connected to Yvette.

The number behind Yvette.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Yvette reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.