Yves is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Yves in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Yves in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Yves by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Yves ranks at #5,104. That means there are 5,103 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yves.
While Yves isn't one of the most popular names of all time, it does seem to have attracted parents especially in the second half of last century. In 1980 the name Yves reached its highest popularity with #1,453 in our ranking of all male first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their son Yves. One might assume that this was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and boys in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Yves.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yves was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 12 babies were born with the name Yves. This puts the name in rank 5,849 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 13,452,167 newborns was named Yves that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Yves has been and remains marvelously unusual!
The first name Yves is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 319 Americans in total bear this name. And these 319 men are located in only five states: California, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey and New York (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Yves and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Yves in relation to it’s male population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 56,992 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Yves present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.7% of all common boys' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With four letters, the name Yves is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Since 1.7% of all boys’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common boys’ name that starts with Y is Yahir.
If your name is Yves and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yves, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Violin
Elephant
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yves
Yves
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
V
E
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Y
V
E
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yves sounds like this:
