Mavis — #565 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Mavis

The Social Security Administration has registered 22,473 babies named Mavis between 1893 and 2024, spanning 132 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mavis currently holds the #565 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1927, when 603 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mavis performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 5,529 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Mavis shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Minnesota, which accounts for 1,584 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Alabama. In total, SSA state-level files list Mavis in 46 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mavis in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 22,473 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.