girls:
21.9k births since 1893
#968 (83rd percentile)
boys:
135 births since 1916
#4451 (3rd percentile)
overall:
22.1k births since 1893
#1710 (78th percentile)
The name Mavis is the #1,710 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,074 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 77.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #968 (83.1% percentile) for all time with 21,939 births since 1893. For boys, it ranks #4,451 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 135 births since 1916.
Mavis first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (1893 for girls and 1916 for boys). Birth data for Mavis is available in 130 out of the 131 years between 1893 and 2023 (130 years for girls and 20 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Mavis has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mavis reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 57.5% percentile (ranked #260) with 448 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 488 births per million (ranked 57.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mavis ranks #507 for girls (46.5% percentile) with 286 births per million, which is 58.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mavis reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #527) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1964.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mavis".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Mavis. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.7% confident that Mavis is pronounced as MAY-vihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MA-vihs, at 16.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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