Yvonne
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French feminine form of Yvon, variant of Yves, from a Germanic root for "yew" (see Old English iw). It might have originally been used of an archer, since yew wood was used to make bows.
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Yvonne
- A female given name from French borrowed from France, in regular use since the twentieth century.
- 1896, Ernest Christopher Dowson, Yvonne of Brittany:
- In your mother's apple orchard
When the world was left behind:
You were shy, so shy, Yvonne!
But your eyes were calm and kind.
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From English Yvonne, from French feminine form of Yvon, variant of Yves, from a Germanic root for "yew".
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Yvonne
- a female given name from English [in turn from French]
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Yvonne
- a female given name of French origin
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Yvonne f
- a female given name, the feminine form of Yvon
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Yvonne
- a female given name from French
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Yvonne
- a female given name of French origin
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Yvonne c (genitive Yvonnes)
- a female given name of French origin