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The name Mavis can also be pronounced ɛm-eɪ-viː-ɪz/MAV-is.
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Mavis Fan (Chinese: 范曉萱; pinyin: Fàn Xiǎoxuān) is a Taiwanese singer and actress.
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This name sounds masculine to me. Only recently heard it.
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Mavis Beaumont is the fictional star of the American Netflix comedy series, “Survival of the Thickest”. The storyline features Mavis as a plus-sized Black woman who is newly single and finds herself having to rebuild her life as a struggling stylist. Mavis is played by actress Michelle Buteau.
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Beautiful! A good balance between delicate and strong.
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Mavis Gibson is a Zimbabwean lawyer and judge who was the first black woman appointed to High Court of Zimbabwe, and the first female and longest serving-justice of the High Court of Namibia.
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Mavis is a very beautiful name. I love how it has historical flair. Plus, it’s really uncommon (shockingly).
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This is my mom's name, I’ve always taken for granted how unique it is. It will always convey strength and seriousness to me because that’s how I view my mom.
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Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress, and civil rights activist. She has recorded and performed with her family's band The Staple Singers and also as a solo artist. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2017.
The name 'Mavis Beacon', used for the main character of the computer program "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing", comes from a combination of Mavis Staples (one of the software developer's favorite singers) and the word beacon (an allusion to her role as a guide to typing).
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The name 'Mavis Beacon', used for the main character of the computer program "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing", comes from a combination of Mavis Staples (one of the software developer's favorite singers) and the word beacon (an allusion to her role as a guide to typing).
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I first heard this name in a movie and fell in love with it ever since. This is the most beautiful name I have ever heard.
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Really unique without it being a name like Sun, Midnight, or Apple. I don’t think I’d consider it for any future children but I would make the comment to anyone having a baby “Wow that’s such a perfect name!”.
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Mavis is my current favorite name for a girl. I love its classiness, that it's nature related, and that it's unique. It's very pretty. If you like it, totally go for it.
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Since this entry states Mavis is derived from the Old French 'mauvis' of unknown origin I do wonder if it's an older form of 'mauvais' meaning 'Which presents a defect, an essential imperfection; which has little or no value (utilitarian, aesthetic, moral, intellectual). Fairly bad (mediocre), very bad (execrable, horrible, despicable, foul).'
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Unattractive.
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It’s beautiful, but I wouldn’t use it.
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Mavis is a diesel engine on "Thomas and Friends". I always liked her because she's kinda like the only friendly diesel engine.
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I kind of like the association and the name is pretty, better than Avis.
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According to howmanyofme.com, there are 106 people in the U.S. named Mavis Davis.
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How about Avis and Mavis as names for twins?
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I really like Mavis. It's pretty without sounding frilly. I associate it too much with Hotel Transylvania, however.
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I wouldn’t use this as a first name, but I love it as a middle name!
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Another name I love. It's an old and very uncommon name that was previously heard in 'Open All Hours' and 'Thomas the Tank Engine', although it had a brief resurgence in fiction in recent years with Charlize Theron's character in 'Young Adult' and Mavis Dracula in 'Hotel Transylvania'.
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In Judy Blume's adolescent novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, the title character's frenemy Nancy assigns the girls in their clique of friends secret names: Alexandra, Veronica, Kimberly, and Mavis. Margaret gets Mavis as her name, and she's not very happy about it. I remember thinking it was a weird name when I read it at age 10.
I have never met a Mavis, and the only famous one I know about is the awesome singer Mavis Staples. I still think it's a weird name, but also cool.
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I have never met a Mavis, and the only famous one I know about is the awesome singer Mavis Staples. I still think it's a weird name, but also cool.
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In 2018, 73 is the most common age for an American (U.S.) Mavis who is registered female with the Social Security Administration. It is the 1, 880th most common female first name for living U.S. citizens.
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Could also be related to the colour mauve.
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The name Mavis was given to 358 girls born in the US in 2016.
More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Mavis are female.
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More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Mavis are female.
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Mavis Vermilion from the anime "Fairy Tail" who founded the Fairy Tail guild.
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The name Mavis was given to 263 girls born in the US in 2015.
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Mavis is a black diesel engine in Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.
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231 girls in America were given Mavis in 2014.
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Mavis Dracula from the Hotel Transylvania franchise.
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Personally, I see this as unisex... with Vid, from Vitus, for a masculine nickname. Mavis... Vitus. They're similar in sound, and attributing the nickname of "life" to a name that means "bird" is as literal as it is charming. It works for me!
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Mavis may have been popularised by Marie Corelli, but it certainly wasn't 'first used' by her. Birth records in the UK show it in use in the sixteenth century and consistently, if rarely, since then.
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There is a computer program to teach typing called "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing."
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I love this name. Also, the name of the vampire girl on the animated movie Hotel Transylvania.
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Mavis is the name of the lead character, portrayed by Charlize Theron, in the film "Young Adult" (2011).
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The name Mavis was given to 43 baby girls born in the US in 2012. I've never really given much thought about this name, but I like it. It's cute and spunky but won't sound weird on an older woman. It's also very uncommon nowadays, but I don't think it would sound completely out of place on a little girl; it sounds very similar to Maeve and Ava, some popular names at the moment.
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What a lovely name! Unique, nice sounding, and it comes with a cute nickname: Mae.
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I immediately think of "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing". Never heard the name used anywhere else.
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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.
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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.
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Mavis and Lark could be cool twin girl names.
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I don't like this name. It sounds masculine, and I dislike the potential nickname "May".
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Mavis Beacon is a fictional character created for the Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing software popular in American schools in the 1990s.
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When I first heard this name, I thought it was pretty gender neutral. It's feminine, but it's pretty strong, too.
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The unseen sister of Cpl. Peter Newkirk on Hogan's Heroes.
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In the movie Go West Young Man, Mae West played a character with this name (which, for some reason, she pronounced "MAH-vis").
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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So lovely and strong.
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