Mavis
[ˈmeɪ.vɪs]Meaning
from mavis, a poetic name for the song thrush, from Old French mauvis
Background Story
Mavis comes from the word for the song thrush, earlier used poetically, as in Robert Burns's 1794 poem Ca' the Yowes. It was first used as a given name by the British author Marie Corelli for a character in her 1895 novel The Sorrows of Satan. It entered the United States' top 1,000 names for newborn girls that same year, peaked there between 1920 and 1938, and has been back among the top 1,000 since 2016.
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