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View Name: Yves
YVES
Gender:
Masculine
Usage:
French
Pronounced:
EEV
[key]
Medieval French form of
Ivo
, originally a short form of
Germanic
names beginning with the
element
iv
meaning "yew". This was the name of a 14th-century French
saint
, also known as Ivo of Kermartin, the patron saint of Brittany.
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