From French Anouk, popularised by actress Anouk Aimée, who adopted the name after her role in the film La Maison sous la mer (1947). Prior to that there is little evidence of…
Borrowed from French Yvette. The politics sense is a reference to the name of a docile young girl in a school textbook, and was popularized by separatist politician Lise…
From the 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…
From French Anouk, popularised by actress Anouk Aimée, who adopted the name after her role in the film La Maison sous la mer (1947). Prior to that there is little evidence of…