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It is quite pretty. But it sounds too much like Elaine if you pronounce it like the Neil Gaiman character, and any other etymology is dubious: Yvain has modern usage in France - peaked in 1986 with 25 of them - but Yvaine doesn't seem to have been used in France at all. Possibly because it's an archaic French form of an archaic Welsh name that there isn't a female version of?

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It has been used in the UK 26 times though - all since 2008, ie after the film. So it looks like Neil Gaiman is responsible for the entirety of its use so far.

This message was edited 6/10/2012, 9:45 AM