Mavis Forename
3,604th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 291,204 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Ghana
Highest density in:
Pitcairn Islands
Mavis Forename Definition:
A female name. an old name for the song- thrush. Marie Corelli seems to have been the first to use it as a christian name in one of her novels, and it is now not uncommon.
Mavis Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana | 100% | 88,155 | 1:306 | 56 |
| South Africa | 100% | 53,321 | 1:1,023 | 121 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 43,283 | 1:356 | 36 |
| England | 100% | 31,571 | 1:1,761 | 316 |
| United States | 100% | 22,417 | 1:16,172 | 1,437 |
| Zambia | - | 17,737 | 1:894 | 204 |
| Jamaica | - | 8,907 | 1:324 | 42 |
| Nigeria | 84% | 3,702 | 1:47,964 | 3,564 |
| Canada | 100% | 3,279 | 1:10,105 | 1,164 |
| Wales | 100% | 1,627 | 1:1,902 | 357 |
| Papua New Guinea | 98% | 1,509 | 1:5,402 | 570 |
| Botswana | 100% | 1,403 | 1:1,557 | 283 |
| New Zealand | - | 1,071 | 1:4,235 | 635 |
| Colombia | 100% | 873 | 1:54,730 | 2,364 |
| Swaziland | - | 666 | 1:1,952 | 434 |
| Australia | - | 603 | 1:22,649 | 1,522 |
| Malawi | 100% | 550 | 1:31,113 | 2,412 |
| China | - | 498 | 1:2,743,084 | 47,626 |
| Namibia | - | 490 | 1:4,906 | 729 |
| Cameroon | 73% | 487 | 1:44,375 | 3,016 |
| Suriname | 100% | 444 | 1:1,245 | 260 |
| Bahamas | - | 435 | 1:918 | 239 |
| Guyana | 100% | 433 | 1:1,763 | 334 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 430 | 1:1,351 | 257 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 403 | 1:3,378 | 631 |
| Scotland | 100% | 400 | 1:13,376 | 805 |
| Honduras | 100% | 393 | 1:22,436 | 1,533 |
| Panama | 100% | 374 | 1:10,445 | 1,371 |
| Netherlands | 99% | 301 | 1:56,153 | 3,677 |
| Barbados | - | 292 | 1:992 | 233 |
| India | 96% | 291 | 1:4,174,838 | 169,900 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 286 | 1:72,724 | 6,418 |
| Mexico | 100% | 271 | 1:458,098 | 5,388 |
| Fiji | - | 259 | 1:3,445 | 924 |
| Singapore | 100% | 256 | 1:24,559 | 4,250 |
| Philippines | 96% | 253 | 1:419,010 | 14,766 |
| Hong Kong | - | 250 | 1:31,011 | 2,372 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 230 | 1:677 | 216 |
| Cuba | - | 225 | 1:51,140 | 1,562 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 217 | 1:140,322 | 8,974 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 151 | 1:31,576 | 1,735 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 132 | 1:228,802 | 7,982 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 124 | 1:14,864 | 889 |
| Egypt | - | 108 | 1:850,935 | 16,903 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 107 | 1:513 | 65 |
| Brazil | 100% | 86 | 1:2,491,118 | 48,963 |
| Belize | 100% | 84 | 1:4,218 | 886 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 84 | 1:1,307 | 267 |
| Jersey | - | 83 | 1:1,205 | 259 |
| Uganda | 96% | 83 | 1:493,457 | 11,506 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 76 | 1:1,468 | 265 |
| Germany | 96% | 75 | 1:1,289,038 | 9,031 |
| Grenada | 100% | 73 | 1:1,481 | 309 |
| Romania | 100% | 67 | 1:299,283 | 9,297 |
| Spain | 100% | 66 | 1:704,999 | 7,444 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 62 | 1:1,190,768 | 33,715 |
| Argentina | 100% | 60 | 1:712,887 | 4,379 |
| Aruba | - | 58 | 1:1,789 | 363 |
| Ireland | 100% | 57 | 1:81,465 | 2,204 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 57 | 1:282,604 | 3,480 |
| Lesotho | 94% | 54 | 1:37,778 | 4,189 |
| Liberia | 100% | 53 | 1:83,246 | 3,799 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 51 | 1:118,007 | 3,824 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 50 | 1:1,988 | 431 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 47 | 1:738 | 158 |
| Belgium | 100% | 38 | 1:302,370 | 6,091 |
| Chile | 100% | 38 | 1:463,348 | 5,820 |
| Peru | 100% | 37 | 1:859,228 | 12,269 |
| France | 100% | 30 | 1:2,215,678 | 12,524 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 30 | 1:5,927 | 952 |
| Kenya | - | 28 | 1:1,653,825 | 20,013 |
| Sweden | 100% | 27 | 1:365,108 | 10,445 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 24 | 1:2,554 | 554 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 22 | 1:1,080,440 | 39,831 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 21 | 1:278 | 74 |
| Qatar | 100% | 18 | 1:131,645 | 15,202 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 17 | 1:1,838 | 426 |
| Norway | 100% | 16 | 1:320,771 | 6,812 |
| Thailand | 100% | 16 | 1:4,379,113 | 86,691 |
| Congo | 67% | 15 | 1:333,947 | 6,940 |
| Denmark | - | 15 | 1:376,633 | 6,579 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 14 | 1:947 | 149 |
| El Salvador | - | 14 | 1:452,985 | 4,295 |
| Italy | 94% | 14 | 1:4,361,578 | 21,991 |
| Israel | 100% | 12 | 1:700,243 | 11,627 |
| Pakistan | 83% | 12 | 1:16,196,473 | 90,643 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 12 | 1:285,636 | 4,451 |
| Bermuda | - | 11 | 1:5,893 | 898 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 11 | 1:746,681 | 9,974 |
| Macau | - | 10 | 1:60,821 | 609 |
| Mozambique | - | 9 | 1:3,027,040 | 2,336 |
| Cook Islands | - | 8 | 1:2,269 | 351 |
| Iceland | - | 8 | 1:45,752 | 2,854 |
| Russia | 100% | 8 | 1:18,029,213 | 55,117 |
| Dominica | - | 7 | 1:10,782 | 397 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 7 | 1:1,021,713 | 39,786 |
| American Samoa | - | 6 | 1:9,308 | 1,982 |
| Ivory Coast | 67% | 6 | 1:3,845,989 | 64,391 |
| Austria | 100% | 4 | 1:2,128,550 | 10,134 |
| Ecuador | - | 4 | 1:4,431,730 | 16,276 |
| Gabon | - | 4 | 1:470,834 | 2,822 |
| Japan | - | 4 | 1:31,996,514 | 55,536 |
| Malta | - | 4 | 1:107,340 | 2,111 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 4 | 1:1,809,201 | 8,869 |
| Portugal | - | 4 | 1:2,602,716 | 8,189 |
| Saint Martin | - | 4 | 1:8,936 | 133 |
| Samoa | - | 4 | 1:48,798 | 712 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 4 | 1:7,703,141 | 17,485 |
| Seychelles | - | 4 | 1:23,168 | 1,192 |
| Sudan | - | 4 | 1:9,451,744 | 6,661 |
| Togo | - | 4 | 1:1,809,810 | 5,654 |
| Finland | 75% | 3 | 1:1,827,728 | 14,078 |
| Montserrat | - | 3 | 1:1,625 | 276 |
| Nauru | 67% | 3 | 1:3,976 | 333 |
| Nepal | 100% | 3 | 1:9,495,784 | 71,056 |
| South Korea | - | 3 | 1:1,848,140 | 23,578 |
| Bulgaria | - | 2 | 1:3,495,195 | 19,668 |
| Greece | - | 2 | 1:5,467,274 | 17,678 |
| Indonesia | - | 2 | 1:128,981,834 | 1,206,875 |
| Oman | - | 2 | 1:2,054,334 | 8,531 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Vietnam | - | 2 | 1:46,311,556 | 7,272 |
| Afghanistan | - | 1 | 1:32,623,516 | 66,536 |
| Bangladesh | - | 1 | 1:159,461,366 | 36,167 |
| Belarus | 100% | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| Bolivia | - | 1 | 1:10,601,404 | 9,299 |
| Brunei | - | 1 | 1:419,570 | 3,266 |
| Cambodia | - | 1 | 1:16,273,330 | 74,610 |
| Cyprus | - | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Czechia | 100% | 1 | 1:10,656,162 | 11,509 |
| French Polynesia | - | 1 | 1:277,902 | 3,605 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Kuwait | - | 1 | 1:3,785,264 | 15,388 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 1 | 1:5,627,571 | 19,299 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Mauritius | - | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Morocco | - | 1 | 1:34,348,636 | 18,260 |
| Pitcairn Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:52 | 1 |
| Poland | - | 1 | 1:38,027,112 | 9,241 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1 | 1:3,550,301 | 10,040 |
| Senegal | - | 1 | 1:14,581,356 | 34,505 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 1 | 1:7,088,663 | 1,497 |
| Slovakia | - | 1 | 1:5,310,063 | 9,949 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 1 | 1:52,788,319 | 85,066 |
The alternate forms: Maviş (2,843) & Mávis (2) are calculated separately.
Mavis (2,977) may also be a surname.
Mavis Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. an old name for the song- thrush. Marie Corelli seems to have been the first to use it as a christian name in one of her novels, and it is now not uncommon.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
F. From French mauvis, it means, or rather mavis does, in poetical English, ‘song-thrush.’ In one of Marie Corelli’s novels, Mavis is the redoubtable Marie herself. max. The usual diminutive of the next; Maxie is rare and childish.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A Celtic name, meaning: The song thrush.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
Mavis Forename Popularity
Mavis Demographics
Average Mavis Salary in
United States
$35,956 USD
Per year
Rank:
310,389 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.00636552
Rank: 1,379 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
82.6%
Sample size: 14,594 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
Phonetically Similar Names
Mavis Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Mavis in the Russian language | ||
| Мавис | mavis | - |
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