Fun Facts About the Name Maevis
- 383 babies named Maevis: U.S. records list 383 babies given the name Maevis from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Maevis Mean?
Maevis is a spelling variant of Mavis, a name taken from the English word for the song thrush, a small brown songbird. The English word descends from Old French mauvis, which named the same bird. The deeper origin of mauvis is not secure; it is generally thought to go back to a Germanic source, but the steps between that source and the Old French form are uncertain.
The literal sense of the name is therefore the bird itself, not an abstract quality. Because the song thrush was valued for its singing, later writers have sometimes treated the name as suggesting a songbird or song, but that is a customary association built on the literal meaning rather than part of the etymology.
Maevis Name History & Origins
Mavis entered English usage as a vocabulary word for the song thrush in the Middle English period, borrowed from Old French mauvis. Its use as a personal name is a later development, appearing in Britain in the 19th century. As a given name it was long uncommon; it belonged to the same broad fashion for naming girls after birds and flowers that produced names like Daisy and Violet.
The name gained wider notice through literature: Mavis Clare is a central character in Marie Corelli's novel The Sorrows of Satan (1895). That is a well-known literary use, not the earliest record of the name, and it should not be treated as the name's origin.
Maevis is a respelled variant of Mavis, with the vowel written as in Mae. It has no separate etymology or independent line of development of its own; it follows the parent name's history and simply represents a different way of spelling the same sound. The form remains much rarer than Mavis.
How Popular is the Name Maevis?
Maevis has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2025. Its best rank was #2,474 in 2025.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #2,474 | 72 | 0.0045% |
| 2024 | #2,784 | 61 | 0.0038% |
| 2023 | #3,356 | 48 | 0.0030% |
| 2022 | #2,911 | 58 | 0.0035% |
| 2021 | #4,789 | 28 | 0.0017% |
| 2020 | #5,419 | 23 | 0.0014% |
| 2019 | #5,915 | 21 | 0.0013% |
| 2018 | #6,977 | 17 | 0.0010% |
| 2017 | #7,297 | 16 | 0.0009% |
| 2016 | #7,845 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2015 | #7,850 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2014 | #11,567 | 9 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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