I have a gut feeling if I ever happen to get pregnant it’d be a boy or multiple! But if I ever had a baby girl I would name her Mavis. This is the most beautiful name ever.
I really like this. It’s not high on my list, but if a spouse loved it, I’d be happy to use it. It sounds strong, but gentle. Nicknames could be Maeve or Ava. I also like Scarlett and Mavis for twin girls. I feel like they have the same vibe.
― Anonymous User 4/27/2024
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The name Mavis can also be pronounced ɛm-eɪ-viː-ɪz/MAV-is.
Mavis Beaumont is the fictional star of the American Netflix comedy series, “Survival of the Thickest”. The storyline features Mavis as a plus-sized Black woman who is newly single and finds herself having to rebuild her life as a struggling stylist. Mavis is played by actress Michelle Buteau.
― Anonymous User 7/15/2023
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Beautiful! A good balance between delicate and strong.
Mavis Gibson is a Zimbabwean lawyer and judge who was the first black woman appointed to High Court of Zimbabwe, and the first female and longest serving-justice of the High Court of Namibia.
― Anonymous User 11/2/2022
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Mavis is a very beautiful name. I love how it has historical flair. Plus, it’s really uncommon (shockingly).
This is my mom's name, I’ve always taken for granted how unique it is. It will always convey strength and seriousness to me because that’s how I view my mom.
― Anonymous User 4/4/2022
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Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress, and civil rights activist. She has recorded and performed with her family's band The Staple Singers and also as a solo artist. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2017.The name 'Mavis Beacon', used for the main character of the computer program "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing", comes from a combination of Mavis Staples (one of the software developer's favorite singers) and the word beacon (an allusion to her role as a guide to typing).
Really unique without it being a name like Sun, Midnight, or Apple. I don’t think I’d consider it for any future children but I would make the comment to anyone having a baby “Wow that’s such a perfect name!”.
Mavis is my current favorite name for a girl. I love its classiness, that it's nature related, and that it's unique. It's very pretty. If you like it, totally go for it.
Since this entry states Mavis is derived from the Old French 'mauvis' of unknown origin I do wonder if it's an older form of 'mauvais' meaning 'Which presents a defect, an essential imperfection; which has little or no value (utilitarian, aesthetic, moral, intellectual). Fairly bad (mediocre), very bad (execrable, horrible, despicable, foul).'
Another name I love. It's an old and very uncommon name that was previously heard in 'Open All Hours' and 'Thomas the Tank Engine', although it had a brief resurgence in fiction in recent years with Charlize Theron's character in 'Young Adult' and Mavis Dracula in 'Hotel Transylvania'.
In Judy Blume's adolescent novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, the title character's frenemy Nancy assigns the girls in their clique of friends secret names: Alexandra, Veronica, Kimberly, and Mavis. Margaret gets Mavis as her name, and she's not very happy about it. I remember thinking it was a weird name when I read it at age 10. I have never met a Mavis, and the only famous one I know about is the awesome singer Mavis Staples. I still think it's a weird name, but also cool.
― Anonymous User 10/18/2018
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In 2018, 73 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Mavis who is registered female with the Social Security Administration. It is the 1, 880th most common female first name for living U.S. citizens.
Mavis Dracula from the Hotel Transylvania franchise.
― Anonymous User 1/19/2016
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Personally, I see this as unisex... with Vid, from Vitus, for a masculine nickname. Mavis... Vitus. They're similar in sound, and attributing the nickname of "life" to a name that means "bird" is as literal as it is charming. It works for me!
― Anonymous User 1/5/2016
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Mavis may have been popularised by Marie Corelli, but it certainly wasn't 'first used' by her. Birth records in the UK show it in use in the sixteenth century and consistently, if rarely, since then.
The name Mavis was given to 43 baby girls born in the US in 2012. I've never really given much thought about this name, but I like it. It's cute and spunky but won't sound weird on an older woman. It's also very uncommon nowadays, but I don't think it would sound completely out of place on a little girl; it sounds very similar to Maeve and Ava, some popular names at the moment.
This is a lovely name. It would be cute on a girl of any age, or it could be a cool name for a character in a story. "Mavis" has a sweet sound as well when spoken.
I think I vaguely remember a character with this name on an episode of Batman: The Animated Series. I think she was a friend of Cat Woman, unless I'm completely mistaken.
The dowdy and dithery middle-aged character in the television soap Coronation Street was called Mavis Riley when she was an unmarried woman, but Mavis Wilton when she got married.
I don't really like this name as it makes me think of dowdy old grandmothers with their grey hair-dos tied in a bun. There was also a dithery and dowdy middle-aged character in the long-running northern English television soap Coronation Street in the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties.