Comments for the name Mavis

So lovely and strong.

I like this name. In Nora Roberts' futuristic series about a cop in NYC, a character's name is Mavis. She's a friend of Eve's (the cop).

I don't really like this name as it makes me think of dowdy old grandmothers with their grey hair-dos tied in a bun. There was also a dithery and dowdy middle-aged character in the long-running northern English television soap Coronation Street in the Seventies, Eighties, and Nineties.

The dowdy and dithery middle-aged character in the television soap Coronation Street was called Mavis Riley when she was an unmarried woman, but Mavis Wilton when she got married.

Well, to those who associate this name with an old lady, to me, it sounds like a lady who is tough and stands her own ground and is very wise.

I think I vaguely remember a character with this name on an episode of Batman: The Animated Series. I think she was a friend of Cat Woman, unless I'm completely mistaken.

In the movie Go West Young Man, Mae West played a character with this name (which, for some reason, she pronounced "MAH-vis").

The unseen sister of Cpl. Peter Newkirk on Hogan's Heroes.

When I first heard this name, I thought it was pretty gender neutral. It's feminine, but it's pretty strong, too.

Mavis Beacon is a fictional character created for the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing software popular in American schools in the 1990s.

I don't like this name. It sounds masculine, and I dislike the potential nickname "May".

Mavis and Lark could be cool twin girl names.

I don't see how Mavis can be perceived as masculine at all. Mavis is very sweet and girly in my opinion. I hope it makes a comeback.

I immediately think of "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing". Never heard the name used anywhere else.

This is a lovely name. It would be cute on a girl of any age, or it could be a cool name for a character in a story. "Mavis" has a sweet sound as well when spoken.

What a lovely name! Unique, nice sounding, and it comes with a cute nickname: Mae.