Mavis

What Mavis means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Mavis yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Up from #1,003 in 2015 to #560 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Mavis?

US: Rising: up from #1003 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2705 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1927, when 603 girls got the name (#270 that year). First in the US records in 1893.

How common

• About 1 in 2,993 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 5,277 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in ND (2.22 per 1,000 girls), MT (1.77 per 1,000 girls), NM (1.5 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Mavis is #560 in the US and #763 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Mavis were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Maevis72 US · 9 E&W
• Mayvis19 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Mavis

Girls

• Ivory#378Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #378 vs #2,440 in 2025
• Rose#114Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1917, with 9,783 babies; 2,386 in 2025
• Opal#423Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,110 in 2015, #423 in 2025
• Rosemary#251“dew of the sea”^*
• June#150From the word “name”^*
• Melody#79Editor’s note Up from #148 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 520 US girls in the 2025 records

For a brother

• Royal#476Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #476 vs #2,014 in 2025
• Duke#695Editor’s note Down from #601 in 2015 to #695 in 2025 in the US
• August#81“month of August”^*
• Prince#447Editor’s note Down from #386 in 2015 to #447 in 2025 in the US
• Briar#686Editor’s note Used for both: 34% of US babies named Briar in 2025 were boys
• Alden#598“old + friend”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under English, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Mavis’s. Rank is US 2025.