Yvette is the French feminine of Yves — from the Old Germanic iv (yew tree, the wood traditionally used for archery bows in medieval Europe). **A top-300 US baby name from 1964 to 1981**. **Yvette Mimieux (1942-2022)** — **American actress; star of *The Time Machine* (1960, opposite Rod Taylor — one of the first major MGM sci-fi films); *Where the Boys Are* (1960), *Light in the Piazza* (1962), *The Black Hole* (1979 Disney)**. **Yvette Nicole Brown (born 1971)** — American actress; Shirley Bennett on *Community* (2009-2014); the first African American Drama Critics' Circle Award winner. **Yvette Cooper (born 1969)** — British Labour Home Secretary (2024-present); leader of the Royal Society of Arts. **Yvette Williams (1929-2019)** — first New Zealand woman to win an Olympic gold medal (London 1948, long jump). **Saint Ivetta of Huy (1158-1228)** — Belgian mystic anchoress, the feminine of *Saint Ivo*. **Yvette Carmen Yvonne** — common French Catholic baby-name pairing.
Featured throughout 20th-century French culture.
Yvette reduces to one — the number of yew tree.