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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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