Yvan
Yvan was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,175 among boys’ names; 510 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yvan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yvan?
#7,175 among boys’ names, 2025
Yvan fell from #6,666 in 2015 to #7,175 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 7.0 per million.
17 babies in 2020, the peak
Yvan peaked in 2020, when 17 boys were given it, #5,440 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 71% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #7,175 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,238 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,908 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,806 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,760 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,440 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 13 | #6,756 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,601 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,530 | 5.9 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,783 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,666 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,608 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,698 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,844 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,739 | 4.7 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,725 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,673 | 5.5 |
| 2007 | 12 | #7,073 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,560 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,863 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,800 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,544 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #6,070 | 6.2 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,651 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 8 | #8,185 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #5,019 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,639 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,949 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,483 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,915 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 9 | #6,350 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 11 | #5,348 | 5.6 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,402 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,926 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,662 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,887 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,415 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #6,934 | 3.2 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,843 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,137 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 5 | #7,330 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,225 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,356 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #7,271 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,932 | 4.5 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,834 | 3.7 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,831 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 6 | #5,093 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,647 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 6 | #4,132 | 3.5 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,626 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,654 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yvan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yvan has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Yvan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yvan, and how old are they?
An estimated 493 Americans named Yvan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 11 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,025 people named Yvan (54 women and girls, 971 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 426 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Yvan?
Yvan is a less common spelling of Ivan: SSA has recorded 510 Yvan and 150,787 Ivan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 154,159 babies since 1880, Yvan is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 2,398 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Yvan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Yvan and names like it
- Compare Yvan and IvanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYvan peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yvan since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Yvan.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yvan alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.