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I agree it looks cool but it's so ick. I get the image of a 40 something year old woman who smokes and has frizzy bleached blonde hair with bad dark regrowth

I like it only as a middle name. I like Yvette as a middle name also.

I don't really like it. I think the Yv part looks awkward. Also, I remember seeing a programme at some point where someone pronounced it WY-von in an really overexaggerated way, and now that's all I hear when I say it!

I quite like it. It's got a pleasant sound - usually pronounced ih VON here - and a happy feel to it. I prefer it to Yvette. Not sure about Scotland but I wouldn't be surprised if your Yvonne was the only one in her school - it was fairly rare in England and Wales at the time: less than 30 babies in 1990, and hasn't been top 100 since the 1960s (Rox was right, peaked in the 1950s). The only Yvonne I know is 30ish and Nigerian.

I like it :-)

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Yvonne is one of those names that I forget I like until I use it in a name game or something. It's smart and understated. I think it could really make a combo pop, if you found the right name to pair it with.

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I prefer it over Yvette. Yvette has a bit of a "French maid joke" vibe.

Yvonne was almost my name.My mother considered naming me for her childhood friend, a French-speaking girl named Yvonne.
It's a good name, I wouldn't have minded, though I like my own name just fine.

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Yvette is pretty, but, just locally, it's come to be the name for politically uninformed and timid women. For example, in an election campaign, -

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"That policy sounds interesting, but how will it fly with the Yvettes?"

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But, outside my own little bubble, Yvette is a nice name.

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Yvonne is just so French looking and sounding. When I first saw it (I was a kid) I thought it seemed super exotic and that attracted me to it. But it also now seems dated and everyday. So it's exotic to me, but in a really ordinary way... I guess... like ... the sushi at the supermarket deli? It's got raw fish on it, but so what - it's American sushi now. Yvonne has a glamorous Yv and a graceful onne, but so what. I won't be shocked if she doesn't speak French.

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Anyway I think it is a nice name. I don't really enjoy the second syllable stress. It sounds a little supercilious to me. Yvette is warmer seeming to me. But I kinda like Evette and Evonne better, for myself (basically because I don't speak French?).

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According to my name book, which has a few popularity lists in it, Yvonne was not on the England/Wales top 50 list in 1981. Nor 1965, nor 1975, nor 1925. But it was #46 in 1950. And according to the entry for the name, it broke into the British top 50 in 1970 as well.

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I think Yvon for a girl would be kind of cool. I guess that is creative of me. But it'd be better than Evan on a girl. And would seem more fashionable IMO than Yvonne would.

I've never known any Yvonnes before. I don't really like it. I don't like the look or the sound of it, especially the sound. Yvette is slightly better, but I still don't like it.

I think Yvonne is a very pretty name, elegant but down to earth. Yvette, like most ette names, has a tacky vibe.

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My stepfather has a cousin named Yvonne, I guess she's around sixty, very pretty and youthful. I think I know of an Yvonne who is around thirty but can't be absolutely sure.

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I can't be sure but I believe Yvonne was popular in the UK in the 1950's or thereabout.

Heh-heh...I went to grade school with a girl who had Yvonne for a middle name, and she thought it made her so fancy. She used to introduce herself as Stephanie Yvonne , like in a stereotypical rich people voice. When I hear the name, I always think of her.

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I like it okay.

It was my favorite name when I was a teenager. I am now lukewarm to it. It's a little severe and not as earthy as my current faves (Susannah, etc.).

I really like Yvonne! It's silken and sultry but also earthy and grounded. I'm fond of Yvette as well, though at the moment I prefer Yvonne.

It's ok. I'm sorta the same, I think it looks better than it sounds. Although it does sort of make me think of 70s smoking waitress. The pronunciation is confusing, too. I'm never sure if I should say iv-ON, ee-VON... yuh-VON?

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My SIL and niece's middle name is Yvonne (and I think it's also her mom and Grandma's middle name). They pronounce it yih-VON.

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I do like Yvonne better than Yvette... Yvette makes me think of Chevette. My dad had that car when I was little. :)

I'm from England, born in 1990 and for my generation Yvonne is very uncommon. In my experience though, names go out of fashion a lot slower in Scotland and in Northern Ireland. When I lived in the latter, I met people in my age group with names like Patricia, Judith and Sharon, which are definitely considered dated in England. I think the culture and the pace of life there is a bit slower, so maybe it makes sense that the change in popularity of names is too.

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I don't really like either name, but I guess I prefer Yvonne to Yvette. I find both hard to pronounce and Yvette comes out sounding like 'a vet'!

Woah, that's exactly my reaction. Before I had opened your post I kept thinking "It looks awesome, but I'm so conflicted about the sound." So it's not just you.

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I have pretty much the same reaction to Yvette.

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Not that it's that similar, but I like Yolande and Yolanda much better than Yvette and Yvonne.