Yevette — girls' name
839 babies named Yevette in U.S. Social Security records since 1949, with the highest year being 1968. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
45% of everyone ever named Yevette was born in this single decade.
72 babies were named Yevette in 1968 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Yevette
The Social Security Administration has registered 839 babies named Yevette between 1949 and 2000, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Yevette currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2000. The name reached its historical peak in 1968, when 72 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Yevette performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 379 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Yevette shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 99 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Yevette in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Yevette in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 839 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Yevette at a glance
Last recorded 2000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Yevette popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2000–1949
- Peak year (1968)
- 72
- Annual births at peak — across 52 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2000.
839 total births across 52 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1968 with 72 births in a single year.
Yevette by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 379 births that decade — 45% of Yevette's all-time total
Yevette decade highlights
- Peak decade 379 births
- Runner-up 216 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Yevette's strongest decade
379 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 45% of all-time use.
Yevette by state
Where Yevette concentrates geographically — total births since 1949
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 99 | 11.8% |
| #2 | Texas | | 22 | 2.6% |
| #3 | New York | | 14 | 1.7% |
| #4 | Louisiana | | 11 | 1.3% |
99 of 839 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 11.8% of nationwide
- Texas 2.6% of nationwide
- New York 1.7% of nationwide
- Louisiana 1.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 11.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1949–2000 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.